Square grids were used in archaeological excavations in Palestine to exhume bodies, vessels, tomb goods, and other valuable artefacts from the subterranean depths of the holy land. Hundreds of thousands of these artefacts were then looted by multiple global institutions over the course of the last century. The labour of excavation was taken on by Palestinian women usually from the village itself. Most of the time these women were also the landowners and those who nurtured the ground with their own hands as farmers. This 9 square grid installation is an ode to those women and an experiment in imagining the vessels returning to their soil. The second iteration of Maternal Exhumations was commissioned by Artvisor for this exhibition.