Tools For Measuring the Color of the Sky

"I automatically responded to the poetry and the phrase ""pebbled channels reach to blue horizons"". This seemed to speak to the prairie stream and the sky. Using a traditional quilting pattern, I translate that image to a 2D work. My love of basic natural science leads me to study histories of how our perceptions of space and color are formed and interpreted. Inspired by the story of a young scientist who wished to record all the colors of blue that he could see, I began to think about how our perceptions of the world around us are always flawed. No matter how sophisticated observational ""tools"" become, the experience we attempt to relay to others is always deficient in some respects. I aim to depict alternate realities built by human error and misunderstanding as they apply to the natural world and natural systems. They are alternate realities informed by (mis)observation; both my own and that of others; images that seek to embody the desire to shape and understand the world around them"