{"id":3214,"date":"2015-07-25T09:04:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T14:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=3214"},"modified":"2026-06-06T16:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:32:15","slug":"the-inspiration-of-landscape-forming-processes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=3214","title":{"rendered":"The Inspiration of Landscape Forming Processes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Many years ago, I found inspiration in volcanic activity which resulted in two quilts with design lines reflecting the ballooning and layering of molten lava emerging under the sea, and both  carrying the title ‘Pahoehoe’  as this particular resulting landform is known by earth scientists<\/em><\/span>.  (scanned old 35mm slides)<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pahoehoe  #1,   1995,  80cm H x 70cm W    irregular shaped, photographed against a black background.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pahoehoe #2 \u00a01997 \u00a0is 12cmH x 13cm W\u00a0 \u00a0 hanging against a cream wall.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I could try to photoshop this pic and remove the blue-ish background, because those patches of blue in the middle of the quilt are actually faced holes, openings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Browsing around Pinterest,  as one is want to do with saturday morning coffee, I was thrilled to find this beautiful silk wall hanging on the artist Petra Voegle’s blog site<\/a><\/span>  It was interesting to see that we’d found inspiration in the same natural force process.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Titled “Pele” (from her Hawaiian Symbols series)  48″ x 17″  (c) Petra Voegtle.<\/span>    She writes about the significance of Pele, the god, not the soccer playing legend – so click the link and go visit this lovely site. (which has lain dormant for some time, however)  There are some intriguing detail shots if you follow the link below the pic on her page.  <\/i>She calls her process ‘silk carving’  but from her description, for my quilter readers she’s talking about a whole cloth quilt.  It’s stunning, perfectly capturing the drag and flow of the lava’s movement out across the landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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