FEMINA I - French Cancan

My idea was to present different women's destinies in parallel.  I drew inspiration from French culture and history.

On one side, there is the Moulin Rouge, representing luxury and voluptuousness. On the other side, Marie-Antoinette, thrown onto the cobblestones and quickly forgotten. The show must go on!

I'm talking about the human stories, the setting is completely unreal. The Moulin Rouge, large and imposing, as well as the Arc de Triomphe are made of organza, floating in the air, and the city behind is a light sketch...

I imagined the quilt in pink and green, with very little red, but the red gradually took over.

I wanted to cut off Marie Antoinette's head for the sake of history, but my partner said I didn't need to provoke people. So I left her completely abandoned, like a puppet. But this failed violence finally returned to the quilt through the use of a frenetic rhythm and the reds.

Behind the bling for tourists, there are hardworking girls who earn their living with difficult and demanding work. Finally, instead of representing celebration and the good life of Paris, the quilt is a protest against the exploitation of the female condition, by its visual attack and the extreme filling of the background.

Mixed media - designer fabrics found on Spoonflower, others printed by myself, altered on Photoshop, breakdown printing, peinture, paint transfer on Lutradur, organza cutted with soldering iron, collages, old laces and various yarns. Free motion quilting.