{"id":6982,"date":"2021-05-10T17:23:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T00:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/?p=6982"},"modified":"2021-05-12T19:35:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T02:35:58","slug":"night-driving-2021-05-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/2021\/05\/10\/night-driving-2021-05-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Driving – 2021.05.10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last August, I started thinking about what I would submit to the Grand National 2021 exhibition ‘Crossroads’<\/a>. I made two pieces specifically for this exhibition: Night Driving<\/strong> and A Study of Pattern and Perspective<\/strong>. I submitted my entries in December, but didn’t want to post about them until the exhibition opened on May 2. This post is about Night Driving<\/strong> – my inspiration and construction techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I often do when searching for inspiration, I did a Google image search for the theme title and similar words. As usual, one image search led to many others and eventually I was looking at a screen full of time-lapse photos of highway traffic at night. I was struck by the beauty of the streams of light, and I decided to see if I could replicate that effect in a fibre art format.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started with a sketch of two highways, one passing over the other, with red taillights on the right and white headlights on the left. I cut the highway shapes from freezer paper to use as templates as my plan was to quilt the highways separately from the background. <\/p>\n\n\n\n