The Fabric of Meditation

This fable in cloth is by Sara Lechner at Fabric of Meditation. Many of her pieces seem to have narrative and (very dear) characters involved in journeys or in contemplation. Her work is inspirational and the components seem to flow together to make a whole. This piece, which Sara says is about both the process of maturation and about how we make our own prisons, reminds me of William Blake's

A robin redbreast in a cage

Puts all Heaven in a rage

     

and also of  Yeats' Holy Thursday

'Twas on Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean,

Came children walking two and two, in red, and blue, and green...