Barbara Cardinal Sorge

As I entered my third year of CST and was fortunate enough to meet several members at the July Oklahoma event, I felt a cohesive experience evolving. I am drawn to the Child archetype, keeping eyes wide open without pre-conceptions. Intuition powers my creativity and loosens the rules. The rabbit is my symbol of the innocent and bouncing ideas which follow zigzagging courses to new directions. In this piece I let multicolored dyes create a bright background and then removed color to create happy circles and the figurative image of the rabbit (child). I hand stitched around each circle and then embellished the rabbit. As I stitched, the second smaller rabbit and the woman image inside the larger rabbit literally appeared and I let the needle and thread do their magic. The whole process was like a living birthing revelation. As a self taught artist I approach my creative process whether in clay, fiber, or other media, as an uncharted approach, relishing the personal learning experiences and growth of both success and failure.

Woman within the Child 2022 22.5 “ x 22.5” Art Quilt NFS bcardinalsorge@gmail.com