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It challenges permanence through the porousness of earth and proposes alternative values through material choice. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Older Sisters<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014two bronze heads shaped with intricate East African braids\u2014speak of sisterhood and care. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Underground Hornship<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a horned, rooted form, evokes a subterranean organism. Mutu\u2019s 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 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prayers<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> gestures upward, the bronzes pull attention downward: to the body, to the ground, to a different kind of presence. 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