This piece gives objects a new purpose; a new meaning in terms of common association. Manual labour and the idea of Maintenance Art have been referenced here after I have begun to get more interested in the relationship between gender roles and performances, and the expectations we have with these. The piece is titled cleaning as it contradicts the real visual view of the work, which is abstract and 'messy'.

The work takes the process of cleaning and the heightened awareness of the act due to Covid, and transforms it into a form of performance art. I begin the activity by creating gestured marks on the surface using objects that we would associate with cleaning. The end see's myself cleaning; a way to disguise the 'happening' and knowing of something taking place. The work only exists as a film and the recording is an object of the work.