I used the gentility of weaving craft with typical home objects, such as taper candles or nails, to express an allegory of the self, identity, and the transformative powers of trauma. Homes are a crucible of initiation and growth, but how these eventuate are dependent on multiple factors, this work attempts to understand the sharp, painful, violent aspects of this growth, for better or worse. With a beginning based in the concept of hostile design and architecture, and a complimentary iteration in photography; this project handles the connotations of objects to suggest and manipulate its audience to explore states of being of both the inhabitant and the site; these non-static conditions are delivered as a hostile experience, and examine how these violences both occur and what toll they take.