Crocheting into coherence the pain and the glory

Since I have previously blogged about theology and the woolly crafts, I was just scrolling rather mindlessly through Apartment Therapy and read this post in which a woman, who makes crochet cactus, asks this question:

All of my crocheted projects are attempts to address, to communicate and to mediate the anxieties I feel about navigating the world ... What I want to know is; Can I crochet into coherence the essential pain and glory of being alive?

Ummm. I feel like there’s some kind of apologetic/evangelistic practice involved in answering that question, but I was quite speechless, then I read on her website "Like my other crochet projects, Plants You Can't Kill are attractive on the surface while also speaking to our human insecurities. These pretty little cacti, aloe plants, flowering pots, ferns and other botanicals look darling on the windowsill but are particularly resonant with those of us who can't keep the real thing alive." [Warning: if you start following links, she does make other things (which I wasn't expecting to stumble upon in a craft site!), which gave me more of an idea of what she meant by, and how she tried to answer, her question, but I decided not to refer to those here ...] Clearly I'm not maximising the potential of this craft (and it can be well and truly elevated into the realm of "art"). But this gave me a curious look into the ways that some people try to understand and respond to the world, using the mediums they know. I’m just still quite speechless ...