ann moody

New quilt in progress

Painted some plates for Buffalo Arts Studio’s Plates and Pasta event and i hate them both! But that’s ok

I got rid of my mattress of 10+ years and cut up the old bedsheets for fabric, used some in this quilt here. There’s also some old T-shirts, a pair of shorts that got stained with blood, an old tablecloth, and a sweater I spilled soup on. That’s Larry the dog stealing the spotlight in the third pic

This is second in a series of quilts with layouts pulled from contemporary alternative comics. This arrangement is from one of C.F.’s pages, one of my favorites. Comics and quilts may seem unrelated, but they both are systematically excluded from the art world writ large. They both also rely heavily on the structure of the grid, an idea commonly addressed by fine artists.

Yesterday’s studio

Our second vegan thanksgiving

Everything but the bread for the dressing was made from scratch 😵

And there’s a pumpkin crumble in the oven

Edit: I also didn’t make the mock meat, it’s a field roast celebration roast.

Fitted bedsheets pushing the verse agenda

New quilt in progress

My Paw Paw’s belt (rip), scraps from my last quilt, a piece of particle board too heavy to use for what it was intended, and a bad painting that didn’t make sense until I paired it with other seemingly disparate objects.

Been thinking about Amanda Ross-Ho and Jessica Stockholder’s work, particularly their studio practice. Seems as if they treat their studio as its own installation space- research, scraps, and cast-offs all become a part of the final piece. I really like the idea of that: trying to make sense of all the clutter and pairing objects you never thought belonged together yet somehow, they work.

If anything, this arrangement is reflective of a particular time in my studio practice-incorporating leftover materials from several successive pieces as a sort of collage of the past few months.

Quick self portrait at work

Bean on a swing