Prayer for the Twenty-first century: Freedom silk thread on linen,moutned on wool, wood frame, 12 x 12 inches, 2025
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| freedom, understanding, courage, family silk thread on linen, mounted on wool, signed with embroidery on front each 12 inches by 12 inches, framed in wood frames 2025 |
These four small red-thread embroideries will debut at the Perivale Gallery for the 2025 season.
Inspired by a poem that John Marsden from Australia wrote in 1997.
Prayer for the twenty-first century
May the road be free for the
journey
May it lead where it promised it
would.
May the stars that gave ancient
bearings
Be seen, still be understood.
May every aircraft fly safely,
May ever traveller be found,
May sailors in crossing the ocean
Not hear the cries of the drowned.
May gardens be wild, like jungles,
May nature never be tamed,
May dangers create of us heroes,
May fears always have names.
May the mountains stand to remind
us
Of what it means to be young,
May we be outlived by our
daughters,
May we be outlived by our sons.
May the bombs rust away in the
bunkers,
And the doomsday clock not be
rewound,
May the solitary scientists,
working,
Remember the holes in the ground.
May the knife remain in the
holder,
May the bullet stay in the gun,
May those who live in the shadows
Be seen by those in the sun.
