Pieced Quilt c. 1936

This 'Pieced Quilt' was made by Maud M. Holme, though the date is unknown. The blues and whites, connected with thin strokes, suggest that the artist’s hand moved carefully. You can almost see her puzzling out the placement of each form, each block. What was she thinking as she pieced this together? What stories are woven into its fabric, its texture? I’m thinking about Agnes Martin and the way that she would construct a square and then bisect it with a line. I'm thinking about the poetry of craft, of the quiet domesticity that becomes a form of abstraction. Here, Holme is in conversation with so many artists across time, isn’t she? All of us, stitching together fragments of experience, memory, and imagination into something new. A record of movement through time and thought.