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Artist Statement

“I sometimes joke that motherhood is the last taboo in contemporary art.” 

-Jori Finkle, From Artist and Mother

My art practice heavily revolves around what I encounter in life. Although, I never envisioned myself making work about motherhood. In 2018 while attending my grandmother’s funeral I found out I was pregnant. The timing of these two events felt cosmically connected. A person’s departure means another’s arrival. To say the phrase “full circle” was used emphatically is an understatement. 

The Arrival examines the life altering complexities that come with motherhood. Complexities such as: the passing of traditions, constructing home, navigating all-nighters, growth charts, feeding schedules, all while trying to reconcile an identity crisis of being a mother and artist. Departing from who I was without a child, and arriving to who I am now as mother.

In this body of work, I use photography and printmaking techniques that make multiples or used processes that can be replicated. I also worked with cyanotypes, one of the first photographic processes used to produce copies, or blueprints. This process helps me to reference the beginning of my children’s life, but also a human coming from someone else, a copy of the original. Full circle.