Drawing Children's Quilt, Four colour lithographs on kozo paper, assorted papers and thread, 60 x 60 cm. by Julie Mcintyre

Children's Quilt, Four colour lithographs on kozo paper, assorted papers and thread, 60 x 60 cm.

This paper quilt refer in structure to the dollhouse my grandmother let us play with when we visited, as well as the themes in Henrik Ibsen's namesake play. The tidy, stacked compartments where precious things are stored, is an appropriate metaphor for my grandmother's controlled and secret life.  Only when she traveled, did I believe she felt free.