Image of quilt titled “Tattoo” by Melodie Banker

 

Tattoo

The only tattoo I want is a dragon, wrapping around the scar on my breast, roaring out the words I have choked on, choked down – an audio-tattoo with wrap around sound, down loadable to your MP3 if you happen to want to listen.

— Sylvia Byrne Pollack

 

Artist Statement: This quilt, inspired by the poem “Tattoo” by Sylvia Byrne Pollock, is dedicated to several friends who lost their breasts or lives to breast cancer – I offer them all a selection of dragon tattoos.

Materials & Techniques: Hand-dyed, clamp-resist cotton and poem/dragons printed silk chiffon. Clamp-resist, hand-dyed cotton, printed poem and dragons on silk chiffon, silk-screened dragons – all by Melodie Bankers

Size: 27.5"W x 30"H