"I start a picture and I finish it."
-- Jean-Michael Basquiat
"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."
-- Henry David Thorerau
"Lady Liberty Goes To Hawaii"
By Marita Wallace (Karen Stone Pa
Every quilt tells a story
"Sharing Her Space"
28 February 2006 The Honolulu Advertiser Zenaida Serrano
... In addition to exhibiting quilts at the Academy Art Center at Linekona and Mission Houses Museum, Murray has exhibited her quilts at a quilt exposition in Myrtle Beach, S.C., the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles in California, and the Kokusai Art Exhibit in Japan.
While Murray's collection will be the main display at "Hawaiian Quilt Inspirations" in La Conner, Murray has also invited other Honolulu artists to each display a quilt at the exhibit.
Charlene Huges of Nu'uanu will exhibit "Na Pua o Hawai'i," a 62-by-56-inch green and white quilt fashioned out of upholstery samples featuring orchids, gingers, plumerias and other local flowers, and embellished with insect buttons.
"I'm really excited about it because anytime an artist is invited to show work, it's validation and recognition of your work, "Hughes said.
Other invited local artists include Gussie Bento, Margo Morgan, Lincoln Okita, Millie Hayden, Sharon Nakasone, Janet Yokoe and Mary Cesar, as well as former Hawai'i resident Sara Kaufman, who will have two quilts on display.
But Hughes said Murray's quilts will be definitely the main attraction. "It's going to knock their eyes out," Hughes said. "She is just a wonderful quilter."
Back in her home, Murray continued to unfold her quilts, smiling like a mother adoring her children with each unveiling.
"This is the pathway that I've chosen to express gratitude for the land and this beauty that surrounds us, and for our ancestors who came before us and honored the land," Murray said. "... It also gives me a way to be happily occupied in these latter years, that I feel purposeful and I can be involved in something." Read More
"Scarlet and Indigo"
By Judy Mathieson
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