“When I approach other textile-based artwork as a weaver, textile scholar, educator, and community creator there is an additional layer of intimacy and empathy that I bring to the conversation. Textile tools and processes transmit experience, skill, and knowledge. A maker must have an intimate and comprehensive understanding of the medium in order to implement these things. The textiles, woven by an artist with these acquired abilities, then become carriers of empathy, memory, and lived experience. Textiles are evidence of humanity.”