Illumination buying Quilt

As I began to study painting in the late 1970s, I read a wonderful book, "The Interaction of Color" by Josef Albers. I was able to see his original work in buying the library at RIT, and this text leapt off the page and into my heart. He talks first about seeing the color red, then about comparing it with other peoples' vision, and finally with the CocaCola red. Then he says that there we each see the same red, but asks, "Do we have the same perception?" I did a series of calligraphic paintings with this text; this is reproduction is of a painting in a a tumbling block pattern with words related to the color red in each block. I spent a day with a dictionary, thesaurus and encyclopedia looking up synonyms and related words: birds, flowers, politicians and more. It has the entire Albers' quotation around the border. The original painting, now in a private collection, traveled to an exhibition in the Soviet Union and returned from Russia. Since there were references to Soviet politicians, I was intrigued by its travels. The original is watercolor and gouache on watercolor paper; this is a commercially printed lithograph, an archival reproduction. We've seen it used in both contemporary and traditional settings, it's bound to start a conversation.