 LUKE HAYNES dolla dolla bill ya'll! 45.5" wide x 20" high  LUKE HAYNES five score 45.5" wide x 20" high  LUKE HAYNES yea, what can i get for 10 dollar? 45.5" wide x 20" high  LUKE HAYNES dropin' twenties 45.5" wide x 20" high  LUKE HAYNES grant me serenity 45.5" wide x 20" high  LUKE HAYNES all about the benjamin's 45.5" wide x 20" high Add Comment My most recent works have been investigating nostalgia and function. I work with quilts because they embody these subconsciously while lending a unique materiality to the process and resultant product. I can work with disparate pieces of fabric and create a cohesive final product that is greater than the sum of its parts. Within contemporary quilt making people are exploring ways of using fabric as a medium for both functional quilts as well as wall hangings. The resultant dialogue between quilting as a pastime of assembling purchased fabrics and quilting as a skill of constructing usable objects from unusable cloth reflects a current societal tension. For each viewer the alchemy is within the craftsmanship and creative eye of the quilter and their work, as demonstrated in the Gee’s Bend quilts. They were brought into national attention as they toured the country through contemporary art museums and galleries. Those quilts constructed for warmth from overused cloth became intriguing art objects. I am interested in the choices we make to express ourselves to our world. The most apparent form of this is our clothes. We create an environment around ourselves to inform others how we desire to be perceived. By quilting I am initiating a dialogue between the immediate environments we create for ourselves, and the environments we inhabit. Where cloth, what we know to respond to as clothes, becomes the language of my work. The cloth becomes the medium that I use to create images and scenes rather than conceal and contain. I ask the viewer to reexamine quilts and cloth in my work. By viewing the pieces the viewer takes away a new understanding of craft and function, as well as art and materiality.  90″ X 90″ Rags to Riches This piece is constructed from reclaimed Textiles. I took Clothes and sheets discarded from the people of NY and created this quilt. The quilt is an image of both Kanye and JAy-z. The colors are White: Sheets Blue: Jeans Black: Dress Clothes It then reads like a rags to riches story. It has been quilted in metallic thread so that when you are close it shines to speak to its subject matter in a tactile and visual way. There are 1 million quilting stitches on it. [My machine counted, is the only reason I know]  back  I am standing there to give you scale. [and to feel all bad ass!] | contact us today
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LUKE HAYNESI am an architect turned Quilter. I come from a strong art and design background that informs my quilt work in a different way than is generally associated with quilting. I make quilts to discuss utility in aesthetics and because I like the tactile craft of constructing works out of fabric. Categories |
