A Conversation with Judith Martin is published in Quilting Arts Magazine

Millennium Journal:  Inner Sonnet

Millennium Journal: Personal Identity

Millennium Journal:  winter solstice

 Cate Coulacos Pratos' interview with Judy Martin appears in the December 2020/January 2021  Issue 108 of Quilting Arts magazine in pages 10 - 13.   Cate asked Judy many questions over several emails during August and nine of those were tightened up for the publication.  Below is an example.

Q:  Tell us about your art-making process.  How do you begin?

A:  My work is led by the fabrics.  I will often pin lengths of cloth to the wall just to become familiar with them, placing them next to others.  Each piece has a different route, but all my work begins with a search for poetic meaning within the materials themselves.  I use sketchbooks or journals every day.  I  keep my thoughts and ideas in them, and also re-read older journals.  

This post is illustrated with the reverse sides of three of Judy's millennium journals - a suite of cloth documents that celebrate and record her daily experience during the turn of the millennium.  Each of the hangins is one lunar month (28 days).  She began in November 1998 and ended February 2001.  Below is the 'front side' of Inner Sonnet.  Judy used a personal code of symbols to represent her body, the weather, and how time was spent that day.  All 28 panels of the journal each measure 48" x 84".  Millennium Journal is an installation that fills a gallery space.   

Millennium Journal:  Inner Sonnet (front)