Patch 32

PATCH MAKER: Kate
LOCATION: Clitheroe
MESSAGE:

My patch is called ‘In the footsteps of ordinary people’ and it recognises the sacrifices and efforts of ordinary people who have stood up, spoken truth to power, and suffered hardship for the sake of others and for the sake of the planet.  I’m thinking locally of the Pendle Radicals and also globally of environmental campaigners, human rights campaigners, XR rebels, ordinary people throughout time.

There is something timeless about Truth and Love: transcending all boundaries of time and place.  These courageous actions are inspired by Truth and Love.  The spiral represents this timeless quality.

It is stitched in the colours of the elements: earth, water, air and space.

The spiral has been sewn onto a black background to sow that we are all acting in the dark, we can’t know what the outcome of our actions will be.

The red background which is holding it all together represent the final element, fire, warmth, passion, the underlying love, the context for our courage.