[2] She is engaged with ideas common to buddhist[3][4][5] and pragmatist[6][7] philosophies, and since 2008 her art practice has been integrated with walking.

Indeed, one senses that she shares with Zen Buddhists in particular a deep skepticism towards language as an authentic mechanism of discovery.

[11][12] Hendl Mirra has worked in diverse media including weaving,[13] writing - particularly indexes,[14][15][16] experimental music,[17][18] sculpture, 16mm film, and video.

[21] Her first one-person institutional exhibition, Sky-wreck, at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago in 2001, was an indigo-dyed textile sculpture of a section of the sky, imagined as part of a geodesic structure.

[22][23] In addition to John Cage,[24] Stanley Brouwn, André Cadere, and Douglas Huebler are key influences.