Part of a series of tomato art quilts, mostly whole cloth and embellished with stitch and text, this one ton tomato makes me smile. I was interested in scale in this piece, one of half a dozen created with Pablo Neruda's Ode to the Tomato in mind. Each day in San Miguel last summer I read one of Neruda's poems aloud, in English and in Spanish -- a practice for my Spanish lessons.
- Subject Matter: Still Life