"Capturing the Light"

A camera and a color film - KODACHROME - capture the color in our world. Part of Paul Simon's song "KODACHROME" is spelled out around the quilt with buttons. This quilt reflects my major interests: quilt-making, photography and writing science curriculum for elementary school. The quilt design is a Mandela - created from circles within squares. This oriental world representation describes a path to Nirvana .... The center of the Mandela is camera's shutter in rainbow colors. The squares surrounding the shutter are red, green and blue. Color film is sensitive to these primary colors of light. The circles beyond the squares represent wheel of colors: red for earth, yellow for sun and blue for the sea. You can see the sun symbol of New Mexico's Zia tribe. The light travels around the quilt, it arrives from top in a straight line and refracted by a prism at right angles to create waves of the spectrum. On the bottom - light is refracted into a white beam (As in Newton's experiment), and traverse lenses of SLR camera.
Mirror on left reflects it until it reaches your eye ...