PRAYERS, OLDER SISTERS, AND UNDERGROUND HORNSHIP

Prayers, Older Sisters, and Underground Hornship reflect a network of rituals, memory, and mutual recognition. Prayers explores the nature of repetitive spiritual gestures as sculptural inscription. It challenges permanence through the porousness of earth and proposes alternative values through material choice. Older Sisters—two bronze heads shaped with intricate East African braids—speak of sisterhood and care. Underground Hornship, a horned, rooted form, evokes a subterranean organism. Mutu’s interest in anthropology shifts from relational bonds to the animal world: a reflection on instinct and ancestral force. The roots form a system designed not to pierce power, but to access buried knowledge. If Prayers gestures upward, the bronzes pull attention downward: to the body, to the ground, to a different kind of presence. Together, they suggest that meaning lies not in hierarchy, but in resonance. A suspended equilibrium emerges—between earth and air, origin and reimagination—where histories, cultures, and materials reflect and expand one another. 

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