A. Reid

Viewfinder//Flag (Flower Crown Farm)

machine-pieced, cyanotype-printed, and coreopsis-dyed cotton, hand-quilted with coreopsis-dyed linen thread

20″ x 30″

2024

A viewfinder-flag has a window in the center, so that it can be used to both mark and observe a place. This one is sewn from cyanotypes printed in collaboration with summer 2022 workshop participants at Flower Crown Farm, and from additional fabric dyed with coreopsis grown on-site by farmer Patricia Kirkpatrick. The front features the quilt block Garden Path (adapted from Abba May Alcott’s version) and incorporates Flying Geese at a various scales, shrunk down and scattered as Flying Pollinators in improvised blocks.