An avid gardener understands the importance of ornamental plants. It’s the layered values beyond the aesthetics that draws me equally to gardening, and quilting. Towering banana trees shade the pond. Shade keeps algae from growing while providing a heat blocker for the aquatic critters. Human size leaves double as utilitarian privacy fence. Their gargantuan size brings back childlike thoughts of Gulliver’s discovery of the Liliputians. Chickens scratch in the green shade.
The quilt sketch began with a photograph of veins of a banana leaf and manipulate in Adobe Capture. Contrasting greens combine technology and traditional quilting. Electric energy powers awes equally to the strength of the original source. The banana trees grow into a dramatic moment.
While loving vibrating visual data, acts of gardening and quilting transcend the outside. Ultimately, time spent in endless work of repetition is meditation.
Jennifer Haston Quilts 