Jack Katarincic -- Symmetry or Imagery?
   
   
   Your essay on two chosen textiles from the "Woven Power" exhibit
   in the Cantor Gallery is generally excellent.    I think the writing here is 
   very good -- probably the best you have done this semester.  I like that 
   you included the photos of the textiles because that really adds a lot
   and helps the reader follow what you are saying.  Using the quotations
   from the exhibit descriptions was fine, but as a rule, you should probably
   identify your source right away in some fashion (with either a footnote
   or a parenthetical note in the text) rather than waiting to the very end.
   
   You are exactly right that these textiles often use symmetry on a "local" level 
   (say within a part of the pattern), but rarely or never use symmetry of the pattern
   as a whole.  Professor Rodgers said that was because exact symmetry
   would be too "boring" as you mention, and I agree with her in a sense.
   But I think there's also the question of what the patterns meant to the
   people who created these textiles, and the imagery was certainly more
   important to them than the idea of exact symmetry of the pattern.
   These aren't just visual designs; they are "texts" in a sense too and
   they contain a lot meaning both in the stylized depictions of animals,
   people, etc. and in the techniques used to create them.
   
      
   Content:  A
   
   Mechanics:  A