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Peer Gynt quilt, Part 1 (2021)
There we were: me, my partner, and my mother, having breakfast in the Savoy Hotel in London before our river cruise, and the conversation drifted to Maurice Ravel‘s Boléro, as it so often does. I recalled a painting by Canadian artist Anne Adams, Unraveling Boléro, inspired by this evocative orchestral piece.
It also forces the arrangement of rectangles into two dimensions: the left-to-right, top-to-bottom progression in Unraveling Boléro —just like a book—won’t work, because there is no scope for returning to an earlier bar without doubling back. I hoped that arranging this model on the table and manipulating the angles between segments would help me to explore the solution space while ensuring that the constraints imposed by the repeats were handled automatically. Digital design of Anitra’s Dance quilt, made in ProcreateThe Procreate app proved useful while assigning colours, because it has a command to apply a hue/saturation/brightness shift to a layer.
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