Through intense and obsessive patterning, I have made pen drawings on paper that seek to depict the sublime. Conceptually engaged with the symbols that reverberate from within the Catholic Church, I have linked my matrilineal connection to the Church with textile art practices, and used these practices as aesthetic inspiration. While learning about the practices of reverence and prayer, I have concurrently approached drawing as a devotional practice. The methodology of ‘slow-time’ has transferred my drawing practice from project to pilgrimage. Via slow-time methodologies and a durational process of making I have sought to synthesise ideas of labour and ideas of the divine. Every drawing I have made begins with the plotting of a gridded base, from which patterns can emerge atop. This grid connects visualisations of labour and order, posits cross-stitch and textile art within the hierarchy of the fine art sphere, and finally seeks to register the sublime within a system that encompasses personal relation to time, scale and light.