Patterned Quilt

approximately 35 commercially printed fabrics

Vibrant and lively, Lesley reuses patterns across the surface with reverberations that are unexpected and seemingly spontaneous. The quilt is a living organism that reproduces itself, as if completely free. Lesley has allowed the patterns to speak to her, and she has given them liberty to carry on the task of creation. 

Lesley remembers that this project was largely one of improvisation, using test fabrics from learning techniques that exploded intricately in areas, and remedying the chaos with large swathes of lizard fabrics (maybe subconsciously referencing ‘Dizzy Lizard’).

Lesley has a strategic balance between artistic control and surrendering to the grasp the artwork itself has over its own creation. She allows herself to work with the project, rather than dictating it. With this quilt, Lesley built and organized patterns from epicenters of life among the quilt, intuitively adding to and feeding, in a sense, the fabric.