Student exhibit at the end of the weeklong classes ~ January 2005
"The kaleidoscope echoes a lingering sense of what used to be interlaced with an aura of things to come as it opens unimagined vistas of pure enchantment and splendor."
R. Scott Cole, kaleidoscope artist, teacher and psychologicical counselor
Morning Song ~ framed and still hanging in our sunroom
"A kaleidoscope can provide a creative beauty that continues to change; one cannot 'replay' a pattern. Thus a kaleidoscope serves not as an escape from conflict but as a tool for generating greater acceptance and harmony. Perhaps this serves as a metaphor for life ~ beauty and change, but you can't turn back." Id.
Salsa - at the end of the class
Salsa - re-worked as the center of a table topper; later donated to the Mountain Baby Blanket Project
"In symmetry there is a balance; in balance there is harmony, in harmony, equilibrium. As long as we are perfectly balanced, we cannot fall. As long as we do not fall, we continue to survive. Survival is the untimate and perpetual striving of all living things, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated being. Somewhere therein lies the relationship between the universal appeal of kaleidoscope mandalas; the inspiration of beauty; the wonder of nature; and the awesome magnificence of Creation itself."
David Kalish, kaleidoscope artist
Another Class Project
"There are two kinds of surprises; the meticulously planned kind and the happy coincidence. Making kaleidoscope quilts allows me to synthesize elements of both, to merge control and spontaneity to spark something unexpected. There is an air of abracadabra as the last seam is stitched because the whole is truly greater than the sum of the parts. And in the end, I am the one who makes the magic and the one who is surprised."
Paula Nadelstern, quilter and author of Kaleidoscope Quilts
