Kusudama
Michael Michalski of Brooklyn, New York
2011
16″ x 16″
Quilt Alliance’s Alliances: People, Patterns, Passion contest
Materials:
Commercial cotton prints and batiks, cotton and poly batting, cotton cord, foundation paper piecing, faux trapunto, couching.
Artist’s Statement:
Kusudama are decorative paper balls made for special occasions. They show the mastery of the origami artist in using simple paper squares. Likewise, the quilt maker uses fabric as a way to express an inner vision, of showing others how we see things. Quilts function as both an artistic viewpoint and a way of showing others we care. Kusudama represents how a craftsman and his medium work together in that expression, an alliance of artist and material.
