MOPS
12 handmade mop forms - cotton, wood, concrete, interior trim paint
Constructed from 4,800 feet of cotton rope and 150 pounds of concrete, Mops transforms a domestic tool into a sculptural meditation on repetition and legacy. I constructed each mop head through 120 circular wrappings, a gesture that echoes a handcraft passed down through generations of women.
Gathered as a group of twelve—a number weighted with cycles and completeness—their forms suggest a task interrupted. The frozen gestures take on a ghostly presence, as though the absent bodies who once performed these motions still linger in the room. Their ghostly stillness suggests bodies just out of frame, presence made visible through absence. In this work, the ordinary is ritualized, carrying forward traces of ancestry and the quiet weight of inheritance.
