Highlights from 2025 part 5
Our Art Group TalkTen came up with a new challenge: The Split Image.
TalkTen is composed of an International group of 13
female textile artists who share a passion
for design, art quilts and creativity. As a group, they decide
upon a design challenge and the women
build art quilts as a response to the
prompt.
In April 2025, an independent volunteer selected
a digital photograph by California photographer
Lee Decker from the Escondido Arts Partnership
Photo Arts Group website (with Mr. Decker’s
consent). The photograph was digitally split into
two halves: six members received the left half and
six the right. Each artist was asked to create an
18" x 18" textile imagining the unseen portion of
their half. This is the right half I received.
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| The right half of the photograph |
We couldn't talk about the project to each other. I didn't have a clue what I was looking at! Neither did the others. We all had a hard time making sense of this challenge.
I decided to start with the colors and shapes in the photograph, extending the lines to the left and made a structural background. I was extremely bothered by this shape. Debated with myself to forget about it and exclude it or what?
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| mysterious shape |
Here is my final artwork: Close Encounter
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| Close Encounter |
After the sky split open and the spaceship
vanished, a capsule remained — small,
silent, and humming with questions.
The entire project was on display at Escondido Arts Partnership, California, from October 11 to 31 2025. Here are some photos of the artwork in the gallery.
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| Lee Decker (left) with some of the artists. |
Lee Decker's reaction after viewing the Zoom meeting of the reveal of the project : "The fabric pieces that the artists
created were quite amazing and I was impressed
with their creative interpretations of the
photograph. … I so enjoyed your presentation and
the discussions that followed; they were endlessly
fascinating. I want to thank the artists for their careful consideration of my work"
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