A Newspaper by Martha Wolfe

A Newspaper, the answer to the old riddle - what's black and white and red/read all over? But newspapers are a dying media form and nothing is really black and white, is it? It's all shades of gray.

I struggled with the theme of integration and settled on color integration as my focus. I begin with my grayscale study. The message is open to personal interpretation.

Shapes advance and recede depending on the values they are adjacent to. Primary, secondary and tertiary forms come into view.

"A Newspaper" is 40" x 40", created from raw-edge appliqued freehand cut shapes from commercial cottons with machine topstitching. I've pretty much dispensed with rulers and patterns these days. The background is natural linen machine quilting. The piece was finished with hand embroidery with cotton sashiko thread.