The 18th Quilt Nihon Exhibition, Part 4

 This is a continuation of the Contemporary quilts.

小林良子made a Log Cabin flow of trickling water.

In 関谷みよ子's 'Time Slip' you can see some old Japanese houses. In real life, they are hard to find as most older houses are demolished and replaced with smaller, taller, and in my opinion, less charming buildings.

布谷郁子 makes blocks of a unique design. I think I have seen them in a similar quilt from a previous contest.

池畑真由美 calls her quilt 'Passion' and its all in purple hues. Both this, and the previous quilt, have a lot of movement.

South Korean quilter, Jeong In Suk, dyes her fabric with pieces of iron that leave rusty marks.

On a background of Slash Quilt, a technique I have not seen in a long time, she has appliquéd geometrical shapes like triangles, squares and rectangles.

If you want to look at different quilting designs, study 松原裕美子's machine-quilted wall-hanging.

Do you remember the waterfall quilt? In the following quilt, you will see other things tumbling down. Or are the circles floating in the air? Maybe they are red and white blood cells in your bloodstream. 

The answer to this magic hoovering or downward flow is tulle.

'Live' by 野畠玲子.

The Swiss quilter Edith Bieri-Hanselmann calls her creation 'Out of Joint'.

If you want to go to Paris, why not play 伊藤培美's board game 'Sugoroku' and step by step you will reach the goal of the Eiffel Tower. 

If I were to walk my way around the streets of Paris, I would NOT wear those high-heeled shoes, though!

Can you name the other sights and flavours of Paris?

Here is a title that puzzles me: 'Que Sera Sera', which I think is translated into English as 'What will be, will be'. I wish I could ask the maker, 菊池郁美.

There are many houses, trees and the word LOVE spelt in all directions....

'Sunlight through the trees' by 近藤容子.

I think this is a very suggestive piece of art. Place it in a waiting room and sit and look at it for a long time, I am sure you will see many other things than rays of sunshine through the canopy of leaves. For example, if you had recently seen a forest fire on the TV news, wouldn't this quilt remind you of wild flames eating their way through the undergrowth? 

Here is another quilt that gets your brain working, 'Night Factory' by 竹脇幸子. Why is there a monkey climbing the ladder? In my ignorance, I think I have missed something of the meaning. Commercial espionage, an escaped zoo animal, a challenge on Social Media among the young and wild or is it King Kong reincarnated?

And with this puzzle, ends the tour around the Contemporary quilts. Next up are the Miniatures, in Part 5.