Just spent two full hours reading through this person’s in-depth yelp reviews that say everything except absolutely anything about the restaurant.

I think this idea is so important for a time where we celebrate creation and desperately need sustainability. We should all recognize the beauty in commitment of the deliriously monotonous work that parents, workers, caretakers, and neighbors do to keep the world turning.

She organized performances and created pieces aimed at uplifting the often invisible and undervalued art of sustaining someone, something, or someplace. Here is half of her Manifesto for Maintenance Art, 1969!

This is a picture from her piece, “Touch Sanitation Performance” where she shook hands with and thanked all 8,500 of NYCs sanitation employees, saying “Thank you for keeping New York City alive”

Can’t stop thinking about Mierle Laderman Ukeles, who was appointed in 1977 as the first official, unpaid Artist in Residence for the New York Department of Sanitation.

Her work celebrates the unsung art of keeping things going- maintenance, motherhood, sanitation, care work…