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Cotton, original block design, hand stenciled, machine pieced and quilted with embellishments.
When I first thought about a hurricane quilt, I was too busy hauling trees to work on it. When I finally sorted my impressions of the period surrounding the storm the primary memories were of chaos, fear, and exhaustion. But there were also several vivid recollections--almost as if they were photographs in my mind--which I chose to translate into fabric in "Hurricane Chronicles." The shift to the left in the third panel is both metaphorical and literal: metaphorical because everything changed during this storm and it will never go back to being the way it was; literal because many trees that stood straight on August 23 are, though well-rooted, now leaning permanently to the west. The shredded binding is pretty much the way things were, and still are in many areas. It especially reminds me of post-Andrew patio screening, which hung in shreds. The rows of houses are an adaptation of a traditional block. I didn't want the back to be plain so I put the hurricane flags on it. They were everywhere--newspapers, signs, even grocery bags--in the weeks following the hurricane.
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