Sewing and Gleaning: Artistic Contemplative Practice as Invitation
Miriam Jessie Fisher
Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality March 1, 2025 DOI: 10.1353/scs.2025.a956954 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Meditation |
| Key points | Argues that contemplative artmaking, exemplified by stitching and the Pocket Wisdom project, can create 'gleaning spaces' that invite community contemplation. |
Abstract
Abstract:The biblical concept of leaving the edges of the harvest for others in need frames an exploration of contemplative artmaking and community engagement. Artmakers are contemplative “sowers” who create gleaning spaces. Publicly offered, they invite strangers to moments of contemplation. An exemplar project, entitled Pocket Wisdom, demonstrates the concept in practice. This essay highlights stitching as a pathway for contemplative practice, and artmaking as an opportunity for communities and individuals to find moments of contemplation. The artmaker “sews and sows,” and the person who beholds it “gleans.”
Comparable studies
Other theoretical and historical papers on meditation, most cited first.
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|---|---|---|---|
| Mindfulness: A proposed operational definition. | 2004 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Mechanisms of mindfulness | 2005 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| How Does Mindfulness Meditation Work? Proposing Mechanisms of Action From a Conceptual and Neural Perspective | 2011 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression | 2006 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART): a framework for understanding the neurobiological mechanisms of mindfulness | 2012 | Theoretical or philosophical paper |