Techniques- quilted, shrunk, frayed, stenciled, painted, metal leafed
Materials- Linen face, cotton gauze back, bamboo batting, cotton, rayon and poly threads, paint, metal leaf
Commissioned for a private client's front entry. The family's names are included in the columns of "text".
Artist's Statement: In 1896 a cache of 50,000 papyrus documents, some 2000 years old, was discovered buried 30 feet deep in rubbish mounds in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt. These documents represented 1000 years of daily records, including inventories, news, jokes and pornographic novels. They are now housed at Oxford University.
The Archeology series is inspired by the idea that our own documents may someday be uncovered. The columns of stitches reference the amount and spacing of columns in the New York Times. Although the artifact is not decipherable, the aged gold patina optimistically infers value and wisdom. The piece invites you to imagine living in 4010, and upon viewing it to contemplate messages from the past. What value can you glean from the writings of those ancient peoples?
Kevan's work, Archeology Fragments: # 6, 7, 3 is in the Studio Art Quilt Associates Show, Art Meets Science and will be
exhibited at the following venues:
- Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, England, August 2010
- Pfizer, Inc., New York, New York, Sept. 16, 2010 - March 16, 2011
- Visions Gallery, San Diego, California, January 1 - April 1, 2012
- Global Health Odyssey Museum of the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, June 1 - Sept. 1, 2012
Linen, cotton and rayon threads, bamboo batting, paint, metal leaf,; stenciled, hand quilted, frayed, shrunk, painted, leafed.
#14 was juried into Quilt National 2011, one of 85 chosen from 1048 submissions from 46 states and 22 foreign countries. The show opened in May and it will travel for two years. See the link under Exhibitions for more information.
