Here's the fun part: my SAQA mentor made it clear from the start that she was looking for 90 degree corners and straight edges. I looked at my current work and started laughing. "Well, on this piece there is one 90 degree corner, but none of the edges are straight. And on that one, all the corners have varying shapes." It's an integral part of the art quilt concept in my mind. The quilt will develop the shape it needs to express its message. The more we tiptoed around this issue, the stronger the position became in my mind. I expanded my artist statement to include it, and found that my quilts became stronger (and lumpier, and curvier and a bit harder to hang.) It has really been exhilirating.
The logical development is "Flyover 10--Dancing in the Rainbow Mountains." I am so very happy with this wholecloth quilt! Its very shape dances away from the wall. The Rainbow Mountains, it turns out, are a real geological phenomenon, occurring in China and in Peru, where they are preserved in national parks. The Peruvian mountain was covered by a glacier until a few years ago; global warming has revealed its bands of colored sedimentary rock.
Online pictures of these mountains tend to be photo-enhanced. As far as I can tell, the real mountain colors are less dramatic than the ones printed on this Indonesian batik, but the true colors vary from one article to another.. To be truthful, I had never heard of Rainbow Mountains until I was finishing the quilt--I just made up the title because it seemed to fit. But then I googled the phrase and behold--there they were.