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Aynex

Fiber, Visual / Media

I am a fiber artist by night, web designer by day. I mostly create art quilts but have also worked in sculpture and fashion. Art quilts are more like paintings in fabric to be displayed on a wall and not what you normally think of as traditional quilts designed as bed coverings. It is something I have to do. Fabric is the best medium I have found to express my artistic voice. I enjoy playing with interlocking shapes of color forming new colors and patterns. I love experimenting with the way colors interact, blend, and play together. My work is usually abstract rather than representational, letting my viewers interpret and relate to the quilt in a personal level. I do most of my work on a sewing machine I use piecing more than appliqué, and also implement machine quilting and some embellishments like beading and couching.

About the Artist

Aynex was born in 1978 in Puerto Rico and now lives in USA. She came to the US in 1996 to go to the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. In 1997 had a car accident and suffered a spinal cord injury. Before the accident, Aynex was right-handed and after the accident, she couldn't control her right hand very well so she learned to be left-handed. Some people say that that left-handed people are more artistic. Aynex was creative before the accident but now she is very interested in art. She has been self-taught in her art and works intuitively. Aynex moved to Frederick, MD in 2008 to start a new stage in her life and re-invented herself. Went back to school obtained a degree in Digital Design. Now she is a web designer and developer at the National Institutes of Health. She is a true believer that everything happens for a reason. At the moment we might not understand why something is happening to us but with time we see that without that event in our life, we would have missed out on something better or we would not had learn something important. Aynex is young but she sees a long chain of events that led her to where she is today. Even though many people would think that she has had many troubles in her life and she cannot be happy, she has never been happier than right now.

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Featured Work

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This quilt represents one of the most distinctive houses in Frederick, MD. It is so wonderful to think of all the history these walls must have been witness to. I create architectural quilts and take commissions.
This quilt was created on 2020. The year were everything was a whirlwind of new experiences for all of us. We are all on a holding pattern, waiting for everything to go back to normal. Are we the same as we were before?
Our country is breaking apart. We need to do something about it. This quilt uses Civil War era blocks and fabrics because that is almost where we are again. We have two different sets of facts, we need to agree on what is true first. We have to remember we are brothers and sisters and love one another like the family we are. Finally we need to stop disrespecting and hurting each other. It is the only way this country is not going to unravel.
Every year my town, Frederick, Maryland, has an explosion of Christmas lights. The leave-less trees get dressed in strands of twinkling lights. It makes me happy just to drive under the tangle of lights. I wanted to represent the feeling of the season and what better way than shiny crystals.