Shining Era

by Lin Hsin-Chen

I have been fascinated with a series of eye-catching colors recently. They are so special, attractive and dazzling. Neon pink, yellow, and green colors are flaunting themselves before us and showing their vividness. People look breezy in them and young people look stylish in them. Then, how about creating a quilt with neon colors?

Photo Credit: http://plentyofcolour.com

According to what I look up on internet, neon colors are popular in 2012 and 2013. What if neon colors, sequins, beads, buttons…or any other shining materials show up together on quilts, will it reveal quilts’ distinctive charm? As an artist in this ever-changing era, it must be very interesting to challenge new materials and catch up with fashion trend.

So, in the second challenge of V9-3, please create within your theme and use “neon color fabrics and sequins, beads, buttons…or any other shining materials”. The vertical dimension should be 42”, and please choose your horizontal dimension between 18" and 54"). Happy creating!

Dongdaemun Market

From Misik Kim

It is a very interesting challenge.

I think it is the the opportunity to use materials I did not use before.

When I went to the market to buy some fabrics, I sometimes get swatches of new materials that I am interested in.

The market is an interesting place for me.

In particular, Dongdaemun Market is a special place that has everything I want.

It is a place gives a lot of ideas to me.

So l love to go there so much.

Thanks Hsin-Chen...........

Ditto Here, Betty!

Bright is delight-ful.  This is a very exciting challenge posed by Hsin-Chen!  Maybe it's working with all these bright colors.  Thank you for this opportunity to brighten things up a bit.  Can't wait for reveal day June 27!

Small sampling

I'm so excited!!

What fun this is going to be!
I've incorporated actual lights in a few pieces so far, and am using Hsin-Chen's great idea for a challenge to do so again- combined with glow in the dark and neon.
Stay tuned!

Better in colour

The world would be a dull place without colour and a touch of neon is so bright and pretty. Miss 5 must have thought so too as she played with my i pad.

Interesting to see the world through the eyes of the young. Thanks Hsin-Chen, I have had a lovely time with this challenge as I love bright colour too.

Neon Memories

When I think of “Neon”, it reminds me of my first car.  A 1995 Dodge Neon in ‘Electric Metallic Blue”. I loved that car! I admit I drove way too fast back then, but it felt like such a shame to drive conservatively in a superhero colored baby like this.

Every day I drove an hour to work and an hour back home, singing along with the radio at the top of my lungs.  Oh yes, I’m a great “car singer” – similar to a “shower singer” but with less water. The year I bought the car, I was a twenty-something girl with a little money in my pocket, good friends and (much underappreciated) free time.  I collected a lot of memories and a few speeding tickets during the Electric Metallic Blue reign.

I put over 100,000 miles on my little Neon before it was time to trade her in for a more “grown up” Honda Civic. By then, I had the same job and same great friends, but I also had a child seat in the back and I obeyed the speed limit.

Drawing with light

The word neon brings out thoughts of big advertising billboards in the centres of big cities. 

I have also seen the work of some artists that have used the neon tubes in their work. This is Bruce Nauman's "Five Marching Men".

Searching for images in the web, some wonderful things have been made with neon tubes.  Really I see it more as drawing with light. This is a piece by Charles McGee.

I ‘drew with light’ in a way, when playing with moving my camera while taking pictures of Christmas tree lights.

This last one feels to me like fireworks.

Alicia

Oh the glow

pink energy

I am so excited about this challenge, thank you Hsin-Chen! Like Martha, these colors take me down memory lane. I have always loved fluorescent colors and it has been so much fun to have them back in fashion again.

I have one shirt that literally vibrates with color. Imagine my surprise when I searched the internet to find why fluorescent colors glow and discovered it has to do with energy! Reflected light beyond the visible spectrum, chemical reactions, energy release. Much too scientific for my brain, but fascinating none the less.

glow in the dark magic

The thread in my baby quilt glows in the dark, the hands on my watch illuminate the night and my puppy can always find her ball thanks to simple processes that seem like magic to me. I wonder if you can mix colors...if fluorescent yellow and fluorescent blue would make fluorescent green. I may just have to find out!

Memory Lane

A wonderful challenge, Hsin-Chen!  Neon evokes a lot of fantastic memories of the 70's for me.  From the first step into a store with a black light in the Village in NYC to teenage dance clubs in Daytona Beach.  I was mesmerized by the colors and electricity it created in my mind!  (not that being 16 didn't create enough electricity:)

Note: cinderblock bookshelves and wire spool coffee table

This was my generation, and we were ALIVE!  And neon heralded our arrival.  Despite the turmoil of youth; the posters, the music, the colors, the light, the fashion, the whole package, brings a flood of warm nostalgia.  Thanks for the trip down memory lane!