Projects > Motherwork

Family
Pencil drawing
20 x 25 cm
2022
Popsicle
Linden flowers, leaves, ice, re-useable popsicle stick
2020
Plage_en_travaux
Single-channel video
34 seconds
2021
Waves
Mixed media (Detail)
2019
After Dennis Oppenheim || Two-stage transfer
Giclée print
25.4 x 25.4 cm
2021
Moon (192 nights)
192 pairs of silicone earplugs
10 x 10 x 10 cm
2019
Mended
Apple, porcelain, clay
2019
Untitled
Hand-poured organic soy wax candle in recycled glass pot
Mother and child
Photo magnet
10 x 15 cm
2019
Waxing gibbous
Giclée print, cyanotype
2020
Sons
Single-channel video
2 minutes 19 seconds
2020
Tree theory
Giclée print
29.7 x 42 cm
2019
Wildflowers
C-type digital print
40 x 40 cm
2020
Circling
Ink drawing
2020
Couvre-feu
C-type digital print
40 x 55 cm
2021
Wildflowers
Cyanotype
10 x 10 cm
2021
Poppy
Pencil drawing
9 x 14 cm
2017
Dear
Mixed media on textile (Detail)
65 x 65 cm
2022
The Lion and the Unicorn
C-type digital print
21 x 29.7 cm
2016
Leaf
Embroidery on textile
2016
Eggs Shell
Shell, clay
2018
Holding me and Theo
C-type digital print
30 x 20 cm
2019

Motherwork is a collection of loosely connected pieces, documenting informal collaborations with my son as well as self-reflective studies on the practice of mothering, maternal ambivalences and anxieties, meditations on time’s passage, the power of imagination and ‘play’… The work is autobiographical but draws inspiration from theoretical texts, including Sara Ruddick’s Maternal Thinking (1995) - essentially, the theory of motherhood as a practice - whose meaning is extended here to include creative practice; Gianfranco Baruchello's and Henry Martin's How to Imagine: a narrative on art and agriculture (1983) is also important - namely, its emphasis on art in the everyday world: "We always had the idea of using all the objective things around us, the objects we have, things in general, the spaces at our disposal, the outdoors around us, we always had the idea of using this all for, well, it's hard to say, some sort of theater, a life. Poetry" (29).

Motherwork was undertaken as part of an Artist Residency in Motherhood and overlaps with other projects.