Mark Rothko once said that he knew nothing of how the viewer would use his pictures to meet the needs of his spirit, but that when the viewer had both needs and a spirit, there could be a true exchange.

As a matter of course, Rothko refused to title his paintings and also avoided assigning meanings to his paintings, letting the colors speak for themselves.

Procedurally, Rothko applied a faint wash of color over the entire canvas and then layered other colors on top. Likewise, I used a huge uncut length of gorgeous old brown wool boucle and layered the other fabrics on top. For this study, instead of the patterns made by brush strokes, I'm interested in the different textures of the fabrics: wool boucle, velvet, corduroy, and denim.

Spatially, Rothko said that he created large paintings so that the viewer could be drawn into the large color fields. In an interesting twist, as an art quilt, the viewer can be drawn into the large color fields literally by using it as quilt, a covering.