sweep up

His cleaning crew was sweeping up litter from the street while their boss talked and talked and talked.

As she sweeps up broken glass outside her shop, Inna knows her country’s future is in the hands of Americans voting more than 5,000 miles away.

Blackwell’s sons sometimes help out in the studio, sweeping up wood dust and sanding boards.

"That's when I knew there was a pipeline to prison; a pipeline that has spent decades sweeping up and funnelling Māori children from state care to prison."

But he wonders: Is there ever a perfect moment to engage artistically with a trauma that sweeps up so many lives and reveals so much about a city’s social fabric?