scary babies - quilts

Over the years, I’ve documented the Scary Babies- Dolls in photographs and even had some images printed onto cotton, creating a series of small quilts. These pieces combine cut and torn fabric scraps—cottons that have been stamped, screened, gel-printed, and painted—stitched together by hand and machine. They are a humorous, sometimes haunting, reminder that everything transforms, including us.

The Scary Babies, have been floating around in our gardens year-round for nearly twenty-five years. They have become a rich, humorous, and ever-changing part of the garden’s history—mirroring the constan transformations we all experience. As we learn to embrace our own aging, the dolls quietly reflect the passage of time, weathered by wind, rain, snow, sun, insects, birds, and the shifting rhythms of the surrounding plants.

scary babies - quilts

figurative quilts

Tracy Page Stilwell