Regret
For several years I've been making notes and sketches for a quilt about "regret." In the last year or so I finalized the design, seen above in a small maquette; the final quilt will be about 60x72." My interest has been to capture the nature of the feeling of regret, which to me has to do with a missed connection between two people. My experience of regret has been intensified by the death of people I love--my parents in 2003 and my son in 2004. Once a person is gone, those missed/failed connections become more salient, and, at the same time, there is no longer a possibility of repair. No further chance to apologize, or to change a behavior. Working on this quilt has helped me understand the pull that regret has come to have in my life. Working on the quilt hasn't eased the pain, but it has helped me live with it. There are still key decisions to be made on the construction of the quilt. Should the black figures be appliqued onto one large backg...