Faith Salie introduces us to the work of a music-loving artist on what you might call the FRINGE:
“I like this machine,” said quilter Ben Venom, “because once it gets going, I liken it to shooting a machine gun. When it’s at full throttle, like R-R-R-R-R!”
Sit down with Venom in his studio in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, and it doesn’t take long to realize he isn’t quite like other quilters.
“There’s a right way, there’s a wrong way, and there’s the way I just decided to do it -- which is my way,” he said.
“You know, I’ll listen to music or try to watch movies, but ultimately the noise of the machine kind of drowns a lot out. Because my head’s right in it. So pretty much my world is right around here.”
His world is filled with arresting images on quilts.
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| “Every Tear Drop,” a quilt by by Ben Venom. |
