Please be home before dark, 2016
This work made over two years time is a reflection of my personal experience as a mother and an exploration of the representation of motherhood and mothering. As I no longer have children at home, I find that my art is often the result of a desire to recreate memories. Sometimes I am moved to make work that represents the overwhelming nature of raising children--the way in which it can become uncontrollable and all encompassing. At the same time I feel a profound sense of loss because my children are grown and I have moved from “active mothering” to “passive mothering”, and I miss the fullness of the activity and chaos. This work is an attempt to make permanent something that by its very nature is and was always intended to be temporary.
