Creating Memory: A Conversation with Carole Harris

Abstract

Let's begin by talking about Playing on the Edge [figure 1]?

I'm basically a designer and all my quilts at least on the surface deal with that. I thought about it [the work] and I think it reveals a little bit about me. [The name of the quilt comes from the idea of] playing on the edge. Some would interpret it as not jumping right in, just playing around on the outside. On the other hand, I see it as pushing as far to the edge as possible, from the inside out. I tried to do that in my work. I try to push it as far as I can without disturbing the balance, without going over the edge.