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'Michael James' quilts explore changes in 'Every Aspect of Daily Life'

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'Michael James' quilts explore changes in 'Every Aspect of Daily Life'

• L. Kent Wolgamott
• Jun 6, 2015
• Jun 6, 2015 Updated Jun 13, 2016
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"Lament on a wide expanse of plain" is a quilt by Michael James that is accompanied by a poem of the same title in his International Quilt Study Center & Museum exhibition "Ambiguity & Enigma."

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"It’s abstract art,” Michael James said of his quilts. “That’s one of the elemental things about my work. It’s focused on abstraction and how abstract imagery can be a kind of touchstone to the metaphysical world."

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"Midday darkens over (melancholy)" is one of the quilts in Michael James' exhibition "Ambiguity & Enigma" 

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Michael James' quilt, "All the spaces of intimacy," includes dots and dark lines that were drawn on a tablet into Photoshop and printed on fabric. 

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"Next then afterward at loose ends" is a quilt by Michael James.

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Images of Sandhill cranes can be seen in Michael James' quilt, "The Long Flight: Sanctuary." 

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"Lament on a wide expanse of plain" is a quilt by Michael James accompanied by a poem of the same title from his International Quilt Study Center & Museum exhibition "Ambiguity & Enigma."

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L. Kent Wolgamott

Fourteen quilts hang in the center gallery at the International Quilt Study Center & Museum, powerful abstract pieces that evoke nature and movement, rigidity and order, and introspection and reflection.

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"Lament on a wide expanse of plain" is a quilt by Michael James that is accompanied by a poem of the same title in his International Quilt Study Center & Museum exhibition "Ambiguity & Enigma."

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Michael James' quilt, "All the spaces of intimacy," includes dots and dark lines that were drawn on a tablet into Photoshop and printed on fabric. 

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