Last August (2025) I posted about how grids represent order and stability, and that today the various systems of order under which each of us lives in today’s world is being destabilised in some way by challenges and change brought about by politicians or other faction leaders’ political ambitions. Until last month, the Russian attack on Ukraine was the most dramatic recent example; but although I haven’t searched to find data on this, I do know there are horrible examples on every continent today. The most recent dramatic conflict currently enveloping the Middle East and threatening us all in some way is the motivation to continue my “Out of Order” series to depict more severely damaged grids.
Here’s a progress shot of Out of Order #7.
As it’s for a juried call, I won’t be showing any more of it here until it either makes it, shows somewhere else, or I decide to not show it until my next solo exhibition. Anyway, suffice to say I have moved to the point of soon needing to decide how to quilt it.
