(Self)Stewardship

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10ft x 2.5ft x 2.5ft hand-pulled kiln formed glass cane, carved crepe myrtle branch Brooms remind us that everyday tasks are ceremonial, that the sacred and the mundane are one in the same. Stewardship is an abstract western-civilization witch’s broom, a domestic body-sized vessel actively sweeping up broken bits of itself, engaged in self-stewardship. Ceremonial brooms prompt the consideration: what will this object cleanse? The vulnerable bristles are mid-sweep, static evidence of agency. The shadows cast are striking– evidence of unseen labor. The glass is clear, a glinting prism of all color; the fibrous tendrils both cast and cleanse its own woven shadows. Show more