The Pity
A Robert Gober-inspired sink takes the form of Mary Magdalene from Michelangelo’s Pieta, but instead of holding a dead Jesus, she holds a sink. Inside the sink are multiples of Sten MK2s, Britain’s most mass-produced 9mm submachine gun during WW2, cast in soap. Suspended in an oak frame that takes design inspiration from bomb-damaged portions of St. Paul's Cathedral, water is supplied to the sink from an original Air Raid Wardens stirrup pump (used originally to put out small fires from German incendiary bombs).
Curly Oak, plaster, 3 soap castings of soap Sten Mk.2s, steel, and Blitz Era fire-pump & bucket // 2021
