Loosen is an edition of ten scroll books handwoven on a Jacquard loom while in residency at the Praxis Textile Workshop in Cleveland, Ohio in 2024. Each scroll measures 9” by roughly 33-88” long and is made of lambswool and cotton fiber with a hand carved cherry wood dowel made by Piers Rippey. The words are from the song Loosen, Loosen by Aly Halpert from the record Loosen on Rising Star Records, released April 11th, 2022. The song/prayer/meditation was written to heal personal and societal grief. For ordinary grief, extraordinary grief, the unbearable kind and the unseen kind and the enduring kind, in service of the exhales and letting go of what is ours and not ours, of compassion, lightness, and becoming who we are after and through it all.