Flo Kasearu is an artist based in Tallinn, Estonia. Working across video, drawing, painting, installation, and performance, she tends to approach big, serious subjects — national identity, power, the line between public and private life — with humor and a raised eyebrow. Since 2013, she has run the Flo Kasearu House Museum, an ongoing artwork and public institution operating out of her own home.

A towering copper sock rises over the street. It started as something humble — a keeper of warmth, usually found in the quiet intimacy of a home — but at this scale it becomes something else: part watchful neighbor, part guardian, part silent authority. Copper is a material we associate with electrical wiring, heat, and civic monuments. The sock shares that weight, but remains inherently vulnerable. Socks need warmth; they wear out; they’re ordinary. Whether this one is offering protection, generating heat, or just staring is for the street to decide.

Statue of Woolen Sock is part of Power of the Margins, Sculpture Milwaukee’s 2026 exhibition, presented in partnership with Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, and Kai Art Center, Tallinn, Estonia — a leading Baltic contemporary art institution housed in a century-old former submarine factory at Noblessner harbor, open since 2019. Support for this work is made in part by the Baltic Culture Fund.