10m x 60cm knitted yarn, foam mirror.

A thing that is accepted as true or certain to happen, without proof, or the action of taking on power or responsibility - climbing the ladder so to speak or the reception of the Virgin Mary bodily into heaven.
In Mid-14th Century Europe paintings of the Madonna and Child began to be appear where the Virgin Mary was depicted knitting. There doesn’t seem to be any particular reason for this apart from the fact that knitting was becoming popular among women in wealthier households. There is no historical evidence Mary knit as the oldest double needled knitted artefacts presently known only date back to 11th century Egypt - socks, previous to that a technique known as nalbinding (more like sewing in loops) was used (250 -450AD, Egypt). Knitting guilds, origins in 14th Century developed with Master craftsmen and journeyman apprentices spreading techniques and a wall piece from one such guild depicts Jacobs Ladder as a motif. Jacobs Ladder being the biblical connection between heaven and earth, it’s also a type of rope ladder used on boats, german word for it is strick leiter but ‘strick’ is the word also used for knitting or for a noose.

The Miraculous Assumption is a reference to the belief that Holy Mary was ‘assumed in her bodily entirety’ into heaven once her earthly life was done. It is seen as an escape for Mary after the death of Jesus referred to in eastern christianity as the Dormition or “falling asleep” to be resurrected. Here in the land of ‘career ladders’ and ‘housing ladders’ children and being pregnant is either a boom (seldom) or a burden and depending on where you start from it is possible or impossible to get any higher.