Mother Lode

 

I chose GOLD as my element ... the Mother Lode hidden in the layers

from an eons-old volcanic eruption

 

Hand stitched with a lot of help from Spot the Dog!

12x12, hand-dyed silk chiffon strips, gold lame, silk and cotton threads,

flannel batting, cotton backing.

 

All the sparkly bits are gold, though they don't appear that way in the photos.

Ancient Voices

 

Who was the man that stood in front of this rock

in an inhospitable desert where once dinosaurs freely roamed

and felt the need to leave his mark in this place?

Was he simply telling the next people passing by that he was here?

Or that he was a great warrior?

Was he leaving a sign of the spirits he worshiped?

Are these shamans from his tribe ... or was he a shaman himself?

 

The dinosaurs left their bones in great abundance in these Utah hills

120 million years ago.  This artist of the Fremont culture

made his marks between 700 AD and 1300 AD.

To stand before these ancient beings carved in stone so long ago

is magical, mystical, humbling.

You can almost hear their voices.

 

12"x12"  Commercial cotton batik, cotton batting & backing,

discharged freehand design from my photo, hand quilted.

Dinosaur National Monument, Utah

(It really is square!  Bad photo.)