Friends and Lovers

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Artist: Janine Brown

Title: Friends and Lovers

Attribution: Friends and Lovers, 2025, Janine Brown

Year: 2025

Materials: Home-cooked bioplastic, white rose petals, yellow rose petals, red rose petals, white zinnia petals, hand-stitched with crochet thread and pearl cotton, two wood panels

Dimensions: 14.5" x 14.5" x 1.75"

Image Statement: This piece uses one of the Friendship Quilt blocks and the Lover's in the Mist Quilt block to create a diptych. Friends is created with yellow rose petals (friendship) and white zinnia petals (remembering a fond friend). Lovers is created with red rose petals (love and passion) and white rose petals (innocence).