Wrapping sharp edges

I’ve been painting this semester, themes have been around a sense of my unraveling, through Covid, uncertainty of the future, and aging.

While in the studio yesterday, working on wrapping things up for my day job, I saw these two little Japanese water chestnuts that I had collected from a bank along the Hudson River. An invasive species, these oddly-shaped, sharp pods have a hard, beetle-like shell. To me they look alien, like a sci-fi artifact, remnants from a different civilization from a far-off galaxy. They are beautiful. But they are sharp, and a beach covered with them can deter anyone, dogs or humans from walking out to touch the water

When Edi, a wonderful MFA colleague gave a workshop on wrapping, she asked us to grab and object that we wanted to wrap, and I snagged a water chestnut. I covered it up just to the point that the yarn would remain on the shape without unraveling.

My question is does this work in some way relate to the painting work, the process or my current intention? Can this idea of covering or revealing the sharp points serve a purpose?