For the past few weeks, a unique exhibit has been on display at the Art Space gallery in Bloomsburg. The exhibit, named as “In Stitches” by its artist, Sara Mika, displays her 'Mock Pie Studio Fiber.' This is more easily recognized as the creation of art quilts. While a few of Mika’s other art quilts and smaller works were on display, the centerpiece of the exhibit was a group of art quilts called “Mended Mistakes.”
A picture of the exhibit from Sara Mika's own website.
“Mended Mistakes” is a rather interesting exhibit. According to the artist’s information on the piece posted at the exhibit itself, the materials used in each of the many quilts in this one piece come from a single online purchase of about 200 ‘badly mended quilt blocks,’ all similar in design, but varying in colors and patterns. A lot of the quilts are the same in accordance to size, but each one has a personality of its own due to how they are constructed.
Each quilt in “Mended Mistakes” plays off of each individual quilt block’s imperfections and colors, leading the eye through a variety of patterns even if they occupy the same amount of space. Each quilt has its own story, due to the way each block was mended together, not a one of them completely alike to the next. This piece displays that something ‘old’ or supposedly ‘bad’ can be made into something new and unique with a bit of work, and thought.
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