Video: Patchwork quilts of modern grandmothers. Patchwork by Mary Helen Fernandez Stewart
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
How much can fit in each piece of fabric of a variegated bedspread, sewn with caring hands. It is so cozy to be covered with such a miracle, so warmth becomes in the heart, and for so long you can look at such a blanket and restore the chronicle of the family from the multi-colored fragments of once favorite things. So Mary Helen Fernandez Stewart spends time sewing together pieces of material. She is an ordinary modern grandmother, but at the same time she creates such bedspreads that she is not ashamed to show in a museum.
Someone creates with a brush and paints, and she uses a needle and thread. And if you can easily scrape off a failed painting from the canvas, then dealing with scraps of fabric requires patience and painstaking work. For more than 25 years, American Mary Helen has dedicated her favorite handicrafts. This is not only a way of self-realization, but also an opportunity to maintain peace of mind in the current of modern chaos, says the artist.
She is a loving grandmother surrounded by her beloved family and grandchildren. Sometimes she leaves to see people and show herself, or rather, her art. And everywhere she is warmly received, because the language of the scraps is understandable to all women in the world. In addition to America, she has been with her work in museums in countries such as Australia, Mexico, New Zealand, France (Paris), England (London), Italy and Greece.
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