the blue color here is slightly distorted.
As a child of the 1960’s, some of my strongest memories are infused with images on my family’s small black and white TV. Our bravest Americans were assassinated onscreen, protests of all sorts were caught on camera and inequities were challenging the status quo all over America.
Despite the time and energy many of us have invested in doing what we can over these many years, here we are again. Or better put, still. These are tough times to navigate, friends. Often it’s hard to know how to say something meaningful.
But friends, there’s music. There was music then, so much amazing music. Music to inspire, to resist, to pull people together. And there’s music now, too.
I head to my sewing studio to find sanctuary, calm and restoration. As I thought of the invitation from the Chandler Center for the Arts and their call for submissions for their area artist exhibit, I felt moved to bring John Lennon’s timeless anthem Imagine to life with this textile piece.
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one.
The show comes down soon and I want to spread a tiny bit of hope and love and comfort today. I’m not sure what else to do at the moment…IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO TOSS YOUR NAME IN FOR A CHANCE TO FIND THIS imagine banner IN YOUR MAILBOX, leave a note in the comments below or send me an email at sewandsowlife(at)gmial(dot)com. I’ll leave this giveaway open until next week…say Friday June 17th at noon EST.
maker’s notes: fusible transfer paper for the letters, raw edge appliqué and quilting done using my sewing machine, vintage linen napkin purchased at our hospital’s thrift shop for the base, cotton quilt batting, letters cut from linen dyed with homegrown indigo.