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About the artist:
Schulze began to make art seriously in 1970. These early works were stitched and embroidered and her first explrations using collage. Beginning with her first quilt in 1974, Schulze altered purchased fabrics— dyeing (60s and 70s), painting and Xerox transfer (80s), photography and photocopy (70s), digital technology (90s) including an ongoing fascination with direct and glue transfer processes (80s to present). While her interest in technology continues, Schulze's main theme is poetry: the poetry of strange often surreal juxtapositions, elegant colors, eccentric surfaces and most of all, the element of surprise in theme and execution. Quilts from 2000 to 2007 reintroduce her interest in gardens. Schulze also began new themes: collages both paper and fabric mixed media works inspired by her tea bowl collection and interiors. Her delight in cities is best illustrated by monumental collages 3 to 4 meters wide.


Artwork
My camera is always with me. However, my favorite and most important camera is the black and white photocopy machine. Not being portable, it stays in the studio. For many years I used the copier to recompose and distort photographs, printing them onto cloth and paper for quilts and collages. In the mid 90s I began to use the photocopier to create line drawings by photocopying my stitched organza embroideries. This idea enlarged and invigorated my work. I made simple copies of the organza embroidery and printed the results onto silk. Later by folding and pleating the original, I found layered trompe l’oeil drawings. Enlarged, distorted and recombined copies created more complex mysterious drawings. Editing and working with the paper copies, I pieced them to build a larger drawing. The process goes back and forth from the originals to re-composed copies until I photocopy the drawings onto silk. The prints are stitched together. Layering the pieced drawing over batting and backing it is then ready to quilt. The quilting adds stitched lines that finish the photographed/photocopied line drawing.

These quilts sit quietly on the wall. When you approach, you may get involved deciding which lines are real and which are printed. I see these drawings as lines of poetry. Each line supports the other. When all the stanzas are finished the drawing asserts itself.

My final question is always—Is it more than the sum of its parts?

Inspiration
Selecting time during the day just for myself can often correct the feeling that life is moving too fast. Sitting in a garden with a cup of tea in a beautiful bowl while basking in the warm sun in the middle of a busy day is one of many restorative possibilities. My collages and quilts give me opportunity and latitude to freeze the details of time taken to smell the flowers, daydream a bit and perhaps begin a poem.

Solitude

2007
76 x 97

Sanctuary

2004
60 x 60

Hideaway

2004
collage quilt
60 x 60

Black Tea II

2007
collage quilt
51 x 64

Ceylon III

2007
collage quilt
51 x 64

Poets Place

2007
collage quilt
51 x 64

Bamboo

2008
collage
28 x 28

Heaven

2008
collage
28 x 28

Earth

2008
collage
28 x 28

Future

2008
collage
28 x 28