These are just some of the things people tell me they see in these new small art quilts I've been making and framing up.They're made through a process called Deconstructed Silkscreening, and although I don't know who coined the term first, I learned the process through a class I took one sweltering summer afternoon at Friends Fabric Art in Lowell, MA. 

The best thing about this silkcreening process is it's unpredictability. There can be no preconceived notion of how something will look until you've pulled your first print, and even then, each print afterwards "deconstructs" your image, making all kinds of textures and patterns come forth.

I just moved into a new office at work for my day job, and needed some art for my walls.  I decided to take a length of fabric with multiple silkscreened prints and free motion quilt it.  Here's how it looked pinned to be quilted:

And here's the quilted piece afterwards:

My intention was to treat some of the printed area of the fabric as negative space and just quilt around the perimeter of the major shapes. I also wanted to accentuate the organic nature of the prints by making the quilting very geometric, and so I stuck to a pattern of varied sized squares and rectangles.  After quilting the whole piece of fabric, I took some pre-cut mats that fit standard frames and "auditioned" segments of the quilted fabric to see what I liked. Here are the results:

So, what do you see? Trees? Maps? Reflections? Just abstracted forms? Nothing at all?