dust clearing

I am ripping out my luminous halo path - removing all those multi-coloured memory cloth bits, and replacing them with plain plant dyed wool and silk, leaving only the red geese, flying in straight rows around the edges of this large square.  A simpler, purer look, but not the original intent.

Or is it?

Isn't my original intent to make a quilt as beautiful and compelling as I can?
Doesn't my 'new' aesthetic thake things away - pares away - all the dust from my old ways and my old cloth is part of that dust.