Confronting Motherhood:
A Visual Dialogue

Client:

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Year:

2023

Years of Production: 2024-Present

I am consistently concerned about falling into tropes about womanhood or motherhood. I struggle to
find artists that explore or embody these emotional concepts without including corporeal depictions of life as a mother.

My intention lies in the level of personal intimacy I seek to explore. I plan for my work to convey the essence of a private conversation. I work on a smaller scale to explore how text, collage, and encaustic generate intricate relationships as a
means to process these significant emotional experiences of my transition into motherhood.

Language and text influence the format in which I work. I want to entice my audience and cause them to
lean in. Partial words and abstracted patterns are obfuscated by layers of encaustic of varying opacity.

Intentionally playing with what is hidden and what is revealed in each vignette is key to informing my
audience of the clarity and confusion of my own matrescence. It is okay if my audience does not notice my work at first glance, as motherhood and its transformation is often overlooked by society.

I want to explore what happens when someone takes the time to view my work at a distance, closer, and then very close. I am curious how these changes in distance can change one’s perception of my artwork.