Boom Boom

Boom

Becoming a mother. An instantaneous transformation, allowing the story to steep and unfold.

Boom

Change makes a way for a second transformation, owning my identity as an artist.

Although I wanted to be a mother for as long as I can remember, the daily demands sometimes felt like suffocation. In order to survive the early days, I buried parts of myself that made me feel vulnerable. As I grew in assurance I was able to find beauty in the unseen and imperfect parts of motherhood. 

Over time I noticed something different growing inside of me - the desire to express myself though art. Boom, an artist is born. The birth of my children was not the death of me, but instead the pruning I needed to make way for the new growth.

I use dried and discarded foliage as my source material, which is a parallel to feeling discarded by society, especially the art world, in my choice to become a mother. I create beauty and give second life to something forgotten and rendered useless. Similar to the work done in mothering, this body of work shows that beauty can be found anew, in the monotony of motherhood and formerly prized plants.