In // Habit

Ritual as Repair, Practice as Prayer

in//habit is a quartet of six-foot by two-foot hooked "yarn paintings"—yoga-mat sized, body-length—created as meditation on the healing power of daily ritual practiced collectively. These textile works explore how personal discipline and shared practice become powerful antidotes to the numbing habits, addictions, and distractions that shape contemporary life.

Here, repetition becomes revelation. Each loop anchors intention and reclaims self. This tiny, colorful shifting in a new direction cultivates ease, receptivity, and quiet capacity to adapt and grow. Through touch, color, and pattern, the work opens new dimensions of perception and renewal.

in//habit reflects a deep, universal rumbling—an honest reckoning with what it takes to repair the heart after rupture. For me, this series became tactile transmutation, both literal and metaphorical: shame into grace, fear into love, woe into wisdom.

Many of the materials carried their own histories—old jeans and dresses, retired yoga blankets, heirloom fabrics—each imbued with the mystery of memory. As I worked, they became collaborators in the alchemy.

Each piece serves as both mat and mirror, remembering the body as instrument of awareness. The four works—Initiation, Purification, Transmutation, and Contemplation—trace stages of healing after loss. Together, they map a journey from the first trembling threshold of change, through cleansing and transformation, into the spacious clarity that follows sustained, supported communal practice.