Postage Stamps

I collected stamps as a child and still love to check out the new commemoratives at the post office. For many years I sent a postcard to my mother every day and found joy and comfort in the ritual of the mail. So when I began to make constructions of thousands of tiny quilts, about the size of stamps, they became postage stamps in my mind and in my titles.

I sew the small bits into “grids in space,” held together only by threads. They remind me of the fragile bonds that hold our world together and how easily it could all come apart.

My quilts aren’t all square, but website thumbnails are! Click on the photos to see what the whole quilt looks like.