Quilt Inspiration is Everywhere - Skateboard Church

Inspiration

Rosalie Dace was inspired by this 100-year-old church in Spain, with murals by Okuda San Miguel, that cover the floors and ceiling of this 'skateboard church.' The pictures, the colors, and the church architecture are very "quilty" and geometric.

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Where do you find design inspiration?

Star Members can learn more about Rosalie in Show 711: Quilting: Where Imagination and Reality Meet also featuring Jennifer Chiaverini and Michael Cummings.

(photo: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/12/skate-church-okuda-san-miguel/)

Comments

#15 Tove 2016-07-27 09:23

I love the idea that the young skaters are not getting killed in the streets and at the same time exposed to fine art and architecture. Catholic churches have always been richly decorated and this is the modern version this tradition.
I get the idea of a former church turned into something else but in the US that happens all the fime and many a great museum in Europe have started as something else: A railwaystation ( D'Orsay,) a greenhouse ( Orangerie) and churches. Would it have been better to tear it down. I love the fact that is a partof dynamic life and just wait 25 years and it will be on the Spain tours along with other pieces of art.

#14 Judymc 2016-07-26 17:35

So sad to see a beautiful 100 year old church desecrated this way.

#13 pancrafts 2016-07-25 21:36

The colors are great but the theme seems to dark for me and I think for a church it's just wrong. But nice colors. and I have seen these same colors in a lot of quilts.

#12 Barb Murdock 2016-07-25 13:14

I love the happy colors!

#11 bwerbelow 2016-07-25 11:10

This church "was abandoned for years and crumbling from neglect". It is now an incredible work of art. Look closely and you'll see the incredible color (theory), the wonderful use of 'line', and the way color was used throughout to define the images and the space surrounding them. Yes, it is very 'quilt-like'. I could look at these images for hours and hours. Hooray to the people who spent the time and money to create this.

#10 redrockslady 2016-07-25 11:01

Yes, the art is over the top. A bit too busy for my eyes. But really great when I focus on one image at a time. The skulls are less "dark" to me than many classic images and relics of Jesus and the Saints that are on display in churches around the world. I'm glad to see the building re-purposed for an often overlooked skateboarding community. Perhaps if it were not still called a church it would not be so offensive to some. It is not a consecrated space but a community space now.
Redrockslady

#9 Kathy Dunham 2016-07-25 10:51

Ladies, after all, it is now a skate park and the images are perfectly suited to this. They're vibrant and exiting. The geometric images and use of color are spectacular. I see potential for paper pieced quilts in the artist's designs. Love it!

#8 amah 2016-07-25 10:46

Addendum to prior comments made by "amah"...

Consider archeologists digging this up a million years from now. They will be pondering the find of traditional cathedral architecture with the juxtaposition of this creative art present on the same dig site. Just thinking...

#7 Ann McDermott 2016-07-25 10:41

Bravo! They worked hard to save this building - to keep it from crumbling to the ground and giving it a purpose. Granted this is not conventional, it is very unique and the at is phenomenal. I would love to see it in person. I can also see how it would inspire art.

#6 amah 2016-07-25 10:25

Reminder.... Every piece of art tells a story. I find this to be an inspiring use of colour and space. Perhaps not something I would duplicate in detail but the inspiration is there.
Quiltingly yours,
amah

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