Quilt Trails

Hi everyone, I'm super excited to be this week's guest blogger. The following images made me want to go on a road trip. Hope you enjoy them as much as I did. I am also adding a few links where you can find some interesting "quilt trails" across rural America.

The quilt trails are part of a growing phenomenon that has swept across rural America involving 29 states and two Canadian provinces. The concept began a decade ago by one Donna Sue Groves, paying tribute to her mother, a fifth-generation quilter, by painting a quilt square pattern on the family’s farm in Manchester, Ohio. According to a quilt trail website, it is estimated that more than 3,000 barns are adorned with quilt patterns. McDowell Quilt Trail is continuing this tradition as a tribute to our Appalachian heritage.

The farm in which the Log Cabin pattern is displayed is the Eden Shale Research Farm for the University of Kentucky. This pattern was chosen by Mrs. Bessie Hawkins, widow of O.D. Hawkins, the first farm manager and Barbara Wyles, wife of Joe Wyles, second farm manager.

Two LeMoyne Stars

Quilter: Donna Sue
Location: Old St Rt 32 Peebles, OH

Two LeMoyne Stars squares adorn another barn in Adams County.

Grandmother's Flower Garden

Quilter: Essie Merck
Location: 738 Old Seneca Road, Central SC

Essie Merck once lived on the property where this block is displayed. For generations, this site was the original Six Mile Community Post Office and farm of the Merck family. The current owner of the property, Cindy Blair, chose the pattern to honor Essie, but changed the original colors. The pattern reminds her of the old Granny Square afghans her great-grandmother, Minnie Gokey, crocheted in colorful florals with a black background.

"A Quilt Trail is a series of painted wood or metal, hung or free standing, quilt squares installed at various locations along a route, emphasizing significant architecture and/or aesthetic landscapes. Currently North America has quilt trails in 27 of the United States as well as in several Canadian provinces, such a British Columbia."

you can find more here and here

archive • Army Libraries Through the Years

these pictures of soldiers in libraries are mostly from the 1940's and are in a sub-section of the us army center for military history website. more categories here.

[all from us army center for military history]

archive is a column by asha schechter

Mark Mahaney

work by Mark Mahaney. see more here.

(top) He was watching this Sikh religious video when I arrived. The founder of Sikhism, Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji is on the screen; (bottom) The Golden Temple in Punjab, India. This structure is considered to be the most sacred spot to the Sikh people. It was built in the middle of a pool of immortality.

sunday II

Tanyth Berkeley

work by Tanyth Berkeley. see more here.

(top) Claire, 2007; (middle) Ariel, 2006; (bottom) Rachel in Yellow Dress, Hallway, 2008.

friday

Gideon Barnett

work by Gideon Barnett. see more here.

On March 16, 2008 I performed a Google image search for the phrase "the origin of the world." The engine returned 987 results which I subsequently photographed on screen with a large format camera. The resulting images were reproduced in three volumes. The images are presented in the order they were ranked by Google, and are enlarged by 300% over the original thumbnails.

thursday

Chris Gentile

work by Chris Gentile. see more here and

here.

(top) On / Shit out of Luck. Let It Down. 2010; (bottom) Human Nature. Reincarnation Blues. 2009.

Lenard Smith

work by Lenard Smith. see more here.

all images from Air. 2010.

wednesday

zz top • tv dinners

peter hujar

robert, c. 1978

mark morrisroe

untitled (view from jersey city apartment), 1986

ke francis

from francis' statement: "my work is mostly narrative in intent. i wouldn't say that i tell stories with my visual art. when i want to tell a story, i use words and write a story. the initial impulse that drives me to start an image is a narrative impulse. once the work is under way, the artwork has a life of its own: the words drop away and from that point on the creation of the work is based on purely visual response. the decisions are almost entirely visual decisions. most of my preconceptions are left behind and the work assumes its own identity, finds its own way to completion. i do what the work tells me to do. when a work is successful, it is because i've managed to get out of the way. this way of working makes bragging such a hollow experience; not the ego-building, uplifting thing bragging was designed to be."

[all ke francis. top to bottom: shelter with picket fence. yellow tuning forks and tornado. injured figure and tuning fork.]

warren k. leffler

march on washington for jobs and freedom, august 28, 1963

zz top • got me under pressure

Claudia Weber

Claudia Weber during the build-up of her work at croxhapox Ghent.

www.claudiaweber.net

Hollis Frampton

phil chang

some spreads from four over one, a new book by phil chang, more information here.

[all Phil Chang, 2010 from four over one. top to bottom: cover. pages 8-9. pages 24-25. pages 40-41 ]

marlo pascual

work by marlo pascual. see more here.

[all marlo pascual. untitled. 2006-8.]

archive • california city

trevor shimizu told me about this archive, one of the best sites dedicated to a city I have seen. more here (be sure to look at the police reports).

[all from california city.]

archive is a weekly column by asha schechter that appears each wednesday on i heart photograph