Liberty and embroidery: Magna Carta at 800
三問，一 :
WHAT 是何。
multum in parvo : much in little
The Magna Carta -- Latin for Great Charter -- is considered the founding document of English law and civil liberties and was an inspiration for the U.S. Constitution.
June 16, 2015( Mainichi Japan )
What : Magna Carta
有圖，有___。
Today’s 800th anniversary of the sealing of the Magna Carta is being celebrated with, among other jollities, a pageant, a masquerade, a bespoke cantata, bell-ringing, a flower festival and a river relay on the Thames featuring the queen’s barge,Gloriana.
唱，來聽。
Phantom Of The Opera - Masquerade
But the most interesting commemoration is a tapestry that replicates the entire Wikipedia article on the Magna Carta, stitched by an army of professional embroiderers along with 36 prisoners, lawyers, journalists and campaigners.
如何，玩出花來?
有意見?
【察之尚精,擬之貴似】
米芾: 知道我誰嗎? 讀我的唇，5A祖師爺。不二。
Julian Assange, a whistle-blower, stitched “freedom” in the Ecuadorean embassy in London; Edward Snowden, another, did “liberty” in Moscow.
[ Freedom X Liberty ]
Jewel-like illustrations by the Embroiderers’ Guild nestle beside clumsy letters by judges, and the blood of a former editor of the Guardian, who pricked his finger while sewing.
A：B＝C：D
“Everybody can contribute, everybody is on the same page,” says Cornelia Parker, who created the embroidery—as, it is to be hoped, are citizens everywhere on the matter of the liberties the Magna Carta embodies.
Are we on the same page?
Between
your eye and this page
I am standing
...
Between
your eye and this page YuNu
is standing
bump
into me
more
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