This is a quilt series inspired by tree bark. Each quilt represents a differnt type of tree bark. Click through to see which one you like.| ANY Texture
After I finished my Flow series at the end of September, I started tidying up my studio. I had a few other projects in different… Read More »Experimental Wall Hanging| ANY Texture
A New Idea One morning I was sitting in my sewing room thinking. I thought about how layering fabrics creates a subtle 3D effect that I really like, such as the one in pieces like my Experimental Wall Hanging, or the two Void pieces. I thought about how challenging it can be to machine stitch… Read More »“El’s Cells,” an Organically-shaped Art Quilt| ANY Texture
When I finished Warm Void I was left with many leftover cardboard squares and a good length of the thicker synthetic netting. I really liked the contrast between the chunky solid squares and the smooth, transparent netting in that piece, and wanted to explore it further, bigger. During one of my FabMo shopping sprees I… Read More »“Cool Void,” an Art Quilt| ANY Texture
My father's sukkah is made from one-hundred years old textiles he got from his own grandfather. The textiles pass tradition, but also help create it.| ANY Texture
I created the quilts in this series during the Covid 19 pandemic, between 2020-2022. This period was difficult for everyone in general, and for me in particular. The quilts are about navigating the challenging times we live in. They are all 16″ x 20,” and are limited to a color palette of grays, whites… Read More »| ANY Texture
Using discarded objects to construct handcrafted brushes is a fun, rewarding and even spiritual experience. Read this to see why I made mine!| ANY Texture
After my mother passed away, I followed her earlier advice and immersed myself in spring colors to cheer myself up.| ANY Texture
This artwork is my response to the war in Ukraine. It depicts our collective disillusions, and the realization that everything can change.| ANY Texture
My father passed away in mid March, ripping a huge tear in the fabric of my life. My dad was a true Renaissance man, a walking encyclopedia, utterly brilliant. He was also humble and modest to a fault, the most honest person I’ve ever met. Most people knew him for his brain: his academic achievements… Read More »Farewell to My Dad, The Ultimate Upcycler| ANY Texture
Looking Back at 2022: An End-of-year Summary| ANY Texture
When I finished Warm Void I was left with many leftover cardboard squares and a good length of the thicker synthetic netting. I really liked the contrast between the chunky solid squares and the smooth, transparent netting in that piece, and wanted to explore it further, bigger. During one of my FabMo shopping sprees I… Read More »“Cool Void,” an Art Quilt| ANY Texture
I often like the back of stitched artworks as much as I like the front, or, sometimes, even more. There is something appealing about the rawness, the loose threads, the visible markings of the artist’s hand, the messiness… For the same reasons, perhaps, I also love exposed seams. If you looked through my closet, you’d… Read More »Inside Out Art Quilt Series| ANY Texture
The maple tree outside my studio's window was glowing with fall colors. It's glory inspired me to create a Falling Leaves art quilt.| ANY Texture
Unlikely Inspiration There is a big maple tree right outside my studio window. Each year around Thanksgiving, the tree transforms into a red and yellow flame, which glows whenever the sun peeks out. It washes my entire studio in red light, and never fails to fill me with awe. One of my very first art… Read More »“Warm Void,” an Art Quilt| ANY Texture
In Search of Textures I love working with fabrics, especially upholstery fabrics, because of their materiality. Painting and collaging are great, too, of course, but fabrics offer both a palette and a tactile body, a combination of colors and textures that I find irresistible. They are tangible objects, something you can hold and feel, and… Read More »“Sensory Collage,” an Art Quilt| ANY Texture
"Blue Planet's Blues" is an art quilt meant to raise awareness to the important environmental issue of ocean plastic pollution.| ANY Texture
My father was a marine biologist. I used his dry seaweed collection to make some seaweed art, a commemorative collaboration.| ANY Texture
In summer 2021, after a LONG Covid lockdown, I was finally able to visit my mom. While there, I helped her tidy up my late father’s office. In a pile on one of the shelves we found a small cardboard box. It was filled with little index cards on which my dad, who was a… Read More »“Yaacov’s Algae” Art Quilt Series| ANY Texture
My grandpa Israel was a master tinsmith. I collaborated with him to create my high school senior sculpting project.| ANY Texture
A few years ago, when my father was still alive and the world was still sane, I wrote a blog post about my dad’s sukkah. I had no idea then that only two short years later my father would die suddenly, and that his sukkah will never be rebuilt. The old pieces of cloth that… Read More »“The Worldly Patriarch” Quilt| ANY Texture
The summer before she passed away I helped my mother tidy up my late father’s study. By then, he was gone for about two and a half years, but my mom hasn’t been able to touch the mess he left behind. I loved my dad’s home office. He spent much of his time there, working… Read More »“The Builder of Jerusalem” Art Quilt| ANY Texture
My mom left me a few assignments before she passed away. One resulted in a quilt series I made to honor the life of my grandfather, her dad. The second was an artwork about her grandmother, who was very influential in her life. My Great Grandmother Sarah Kopel My mom’s maternal grandmother, Sara Kopel nee… Read More »The “Grieving Matriarch” Quilt| ANY Texture
A couple of years ago, after completing my experimental seaweed art series, I decided to continue playing with pictures of my late father’s first algae collection. I enjoyed the delicacy of the dried seaweeds in my dad’s collection, and felt comforted by incorporating something he cared about into my own art. After digitally manipulating images,… Read More »From Wall Art to … Table Runner?| ANY Texture
I used strips of fabric, "Cloth Strokes," to compose an art quilt the way a painter composes a painting by combining brush strokes.| ANY Texture
After I finished my Flow series I stumbled upon a box of small fabric samples. They inspired me to make an experimental wall hanging.| ANY Texture
I had a small pile of sari silk ribbon bits, and decided to incorporate them into experimental tiny textile sketches.| ANY Texture
I felt the need to immerse myself in textures and colors, so I embarked on a series of six art quilts, which I called the Flow Series.| ANY Texture