alexis.gander@gmail.com Boston Modern Quilt Guild Newton, Massachusetts, United States
The log cabin composition is classically associated with the idea of “hominess” or domestic idyll. In this quilt, the red central square denoting the hearth has been replaced by a woman’s face, while the hearth’s flames are no longer contained but have spread to lick at the cabin’s logs. The quilt as a symbol of domestic contentment is challenged and the relationship among fire, woman, and quilt – consumptive, destructive, illuminating — is deliberately ambiguous.
