Janitor’s Room 729B
24″ x 24″ x 36″
Steel
I wanted to communicate a sense of gratitude for those who have the thankless task of keeping the building clean. I link the feeling of gratitude with flowers, specifically bouquets. Hence this sculpture, an abstract bouquet. I placed it in the space in which my feelings are embedded …. the housekeepers’ closet used by the women and men— largely hard working unheralded people — charged with cleaning the sinks, toilets, urinals, and floors dirtied by unthinking students both young and old. Hence a gleaming bouquet set in the windowless, clean, nondescript, generic closet identified as “729B Janitor Room.”