This installation replicates, documents and transcribes the shape of motherhood in my life. It is reflective of my attempts to define motherhood in my own terms.
Indivisible, Portland, OR – June, 2018 – Residency and Gallery Show
The parts of this installation include but are not limited to drawings in charcoal and graphite, writings on paper in sharpie, video, Heywood, sitting at a table drawing, probably my other son, sitting tucked into some spot, reading comic books, a small booklet titled, some interactive and voluntary exercises on connection.
Birthday video is viewable here.
Here are a few of the alternative names conjured up for this show:
- mommy blog
- attempting motherhood
- a mother day, a mother dollar
- reflective walls
- elements of catharsis
- transference/replicating/redundant
- I am the very mother of a modern major mineral
- dumb mother
- mother neck
- mind over mother
- on motherhood and other forms of connection
- on motherhood, being an artist and falling apart
- Likeness
- mothering heights
- the house is really old
- uterine writings
- another motherhood
- there goes the motherhood
- what to expect when you’re expecting
- motor mother
- mother cookie cutter
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