Marissa Brassfield
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Beverly St. Clair’s Genome Quilt designs took quite a bit of processing for me to fully appreciate their beauty. Inspired at Wesleyan College by Anni Albers’ serigraphs of triangles arranged in a grid—which reminded St. Clair of quilt patterns—and by the Human Genome project, St. Clair created quilts that are visual representations of actual genetic code. Wow. For quilts that exemplify the specific genetic code representations of which St. Clair speaks, check out genome quilts 1,5, 7, and 10 in the gallery.  I realized that I could use a simple quilt block to represent each of the four bases in DNA: cytosine, guanine, adenine, and thymine. A square bisected into a light and dark triangle is rotated in four orientations to resemble the letters C, G, A, and T. These blocks are placed in sequences determined by the base sequence, so one can read the genetic code by looking at the quilt. The color and fabric choices influence the overall design.
(genomequilts)References: genomequilts, boingboing.net Filed In: |
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