Be Patterns: An illustrated Advices and queries, by Jenny Vickers and Brett Fletcher

3 Jun 2021 | by Bob Ward

Authors: Jenny Vickers and Brett Fletcher. Review by Bob Ward

‘The wisdom of our familiar “little red book” shines forth in a starburst of colour.’ | Photo: Detail of book cover of Be Patterns: An illustrated Advices and queries, by Jenny Vickers and Brett Fletcher

‘Sing and rejoice, ye Children of the Day and of the Light; for the Lord is at work in this thick night of Darkness’ wrote George Fox in one of his epistles (Quaker faith & practice 20.23). The musician Jenny Vickers, in collaboration with the artist Brett Fletcher, was inspired by the same spirit to set about re-envisioning the text of that distillation of Quaker community life, Advices & queries (A&q).

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