Stubborn Tangles explores the body in protest as an act of locking on through collective action, resistance, and love, entangled in our interdependence and interconnectedness as a species. Studies made whilst artist in residence at UNSW Art & Design draw on images from news cycles of citizens engaged in political, social, and environmental protests. In preparation for weaving the final works, the artist produced a series of photos through staging a role play protest to show the body locking arms and legs, forming human chains, sit-ins—to highlight the body as a tool of resistance, and to capture a possible effervescence - a state of intense shared emotional activation and sense of unison that emerges during instances of collective behavior. Translated into woven form on the TC2 Jacquard hand loom, the photographic takes on the pictorialism of painting and the structural aesthetic of the warp and weft matrix. Stubborn Tangles final works were made during a residency in Aubusson, France.