In the former wash room of a men’s religious community, I ironed linens belonging to five generations of women in my family. Repeatedly pressing and folding hand-embroidered cloth for the length of a workday, the performance began at dawn and included one 30-minute and two 15-minute breaks.

The video documents the passing of time in a patch of sunlight moving across the wall and the hourly tolling of church bells. Viewers are invited to see but not enter this cloistered space, to witness physical movements and metaphysical labors that gesture toward the sacred by attending closely to the materials of daily life. Inspired by the life of Clare of Assisi, patron saint of laundry.