When Pigs Fly

59 × 49 in | art quilt | 2022 | Private Collection

raw edge appliqué, collage, longarm quilting by Chris Broehmer

Built from thousands of small fabric pieces used like brush strokes, this work uses an impressionistic surface to depict a tornado as a rising spectrum. It came from watching the growing violence of tornadoes and the heartbreak of climate change, and trying to hold beauty and danger in the same frame.