Beginning in 2025 and continuing in the present, Woven Sanctuaries considers refuge as something emotionally made rather than physically found.
Across the series, Benjamin Asante stages moments of music, leisure, romance, solitude, and social ritual as sites of shelter--brief conditions in which tenderness, longing, style, and self-possession can exist against the pressures of ordinary life.
Yarn and paint work together to heighten this idea: surface becomes structure, and intimacy is treated not as sentiment, but as something carefully built, held, and protected.