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Shaft, H 47" head L ~ 235" | Metal, plastic, cotton | 2024

A mop is used to clean up messes, but what happens when the mop itself is a tangled mess? Like tree roots breaking through asphalt, is it stretching free with a force too strong to stay contained, or simply becoming its own obstacle?

Sculpture of a cleaning mop with a blue shaft leaning against white wall and light-colored extended tangled threads on a gray wooden floor. Lola Carlander Wade.