Victoria Young -- Kain Kebat Textiles
   
   
   Your essay on two chosen textiles from the "Woven Power" exhibit
   in the Cantor Gallery is generally excellent.  I like that you chose
   two such different pieces to analyze, and the non-symmetrical one
   was really the "star of the show," I think.  There's just one sentence
   in what you wrote that I did not understand, though, and it was 
   referring to that piece:  "These symbols are not powerful because there 
   was little resemblance to actual leeches, so they are just labels rather 
   than having a title, which helps to distinguish if the cloth is powerful."
   I'm not sure what you were trying to say there.  Did you mean that
   the "leech" symbols are not powerful for an observer (like you) 
   who is not a member of the society this came from?  That would 
   be one possible interpretation.  I think for the people who created
   these textiles, whether or not the pattern looked like an actual
   leech was probably not a big issue, though.  In fact the shape would
   be just as powerful or maybe even more so as a pure symbol.  The
   power does not come from the resemblance to the animal in real
   life, but from the association in the language of symbols.  
   
   Other than this, I think the writing here is very good -- probably
   the best you have done this semester.
   
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