Portals on My Camino

I hiked 260 miles of the Camino Frances in Northern Spain and documented the landscape and villages photographically. From these I produced montages on the theme of pilgrimage to the Cathedral of St James in Santiago de Compostela, the oldest continuous Christian pilgrimage site, second to Rome and Jerusalem. This composition combines multiple doors, portals to my experience along the way. The outer border design is a pattern I generated from three horreos, (storage structures for corn, grain or dried fish). The inner border is from a street tile of a shell. The shell is a symbol for pilgrims. Portals on My Camino is a composite of 21 photographs on the Camino Frances which I had digitally printed on cotton. Following the lines of each form, I freemotion quilted on a stationary longarm machine using thread colors to match. $7200 60h x 49w