Materials: Cotton Fabric and thread, hand and machine pieced, and hand-quilted

Year completed: 2021

Dimensions: 64 x 53”

This quilt is the first made for my ARTservancy residency at Lake Park in Milwaukee, spanning October 2020 through September 2021. The quilt touches on the unique occurrence of a Halloween blue moon and the passing of RGB. It also notes my joy at experiencing an artists residency in Milwaukee, which I had longed to do for many years. The embroidery and applique juxtapose my memory of the leaves at the park alongside accurate tracings of the leaves, hinting at the ways my mind and memory can reconstruct the past both accurately and with gaps. It is my hope that when viewed in person, the viewer has a dramatically different experience both close and far from the quilt.

Exhibitions: With Ma, Film Screening at MARN Art + Culture Hub, Milwaukee, WI (2023)
QuiltCon presented by the Modern Quilt Guild, Atlanta, GA (2023)
Heidi Parkes’s Quilts, special exhibit at The Great Wisconsin Quilt Show in Madison, WI, September 8-10, 2022
Heidi Parkes, Gallery 224, Port Washington, WI (2021)

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