Handcrafts, and textiles especially,
can be a powerful and evocative tool
to increase awareness and provoke action
to effect change in the lives of human beings.

Each human life is so precious
and we are blessed if we are graced with good health and well-being.
Not every one is so lucky.
Textile installations,
such as this incredible work of art by Caren Garfen,
draw us in with its apparent innocence
and shocks us into deep reflection with its hard-hitting
realism and message.

I am in awe.

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I was empowered by this talk from Sarah Corbett.
Empowered because she honoured the gifts of the introvert.
Empowered because she named some of these gifts:
deep thinking;
intriguing people and drawing them in;
intimacy.
Empowered because she valued my contribution to life.
Empowered because she encourages the subtle activist as much as the front-line protestor.

Many of the textile figures and art I create
are an invitation to both myself and others
to think;
to react;
to bring about change
one person at a time.