2022. Accordion book with wool cover, housed in clamshell box.
Cover, wool with text embroidered with cotton threads; interior, linen embroidered with cotton threads. Open, 6 x 22 inches; closed, 6 x 11 inches.
Blustery windy days on Quiet Island are those in-between weather days (gusty and wild but not hurricane) where being outside is fine, and even enjoyable. If you’re biking, wear shoes, tighten your chin strap and remember — strong winds can push you over. Before you leave the house, secure your screen door. (Unlatched screen doors blow and flap, syncopated with garden gates, flags, laundry lines, and other untethered bits of daily life.)
Quiet Island is within the sweep of the North Atlantic Drift of the Gulf Stream and inside the arm of land which keeps away the hurricanes that hit most everywhere else nearby.
A few hundred or so people live on this island. Houses are basic, cars are shared, libraries are popular, and people bake a lot. And they brew too, because while they’re quiet, they are social. Many have relatives who visit, and some bring friends with them, particularly for the varied (and some invented) holidays.