With this work, Helena de Waal continues her exploration of such philosophical concerns as the post-modern human condition, utilising ceramics as her medium of choice for these interrogations. Fashioning her clay into the shape of an upright vacuum cleaner with a bag, and shaping the vacuum's head into a smiling face, De Waal aims to question the daily plight of the white- and pink-collar working classes.

Within their work environment these individuals are frequently manoeuvred or directed by unpleasant or often objectionable power structures, against which they have little or no influence or control. It is simply expected of them to "suck it up", as the expression goes, and to do this with smiles on their faces.

However, as it happens with the vacuum cleaner bag as it fills with dust and other particles, as it becomes ever more inflated, in a similar manner the working classes become fatigued, weary, and every so often, quite jaded within their everyday circumstances. As it becomes necessary to purify and cleanse the nearly bursting vacuum cleaner bag, so too it becomes necessary for workers to purify and cleanse themselves of said manipulations which would ultimately cause their collapse or defeat.