The Hatching

In the sculptural installation, The Hatching, I have expressed the entangled and complex issues relating to woman’s capacity to procreate. As a woman who has had miscarriages, terminations, and who has given birth, and who has been involved with these procreative processes in other women, I have experienced or witnessed the labyrinth of emotions that present as consequences of the indoctrination and expectations placed on women culturally.

I had thought to write a memoir yet ‘speaking’ out loud the details of my growing pains and experiences, even the good ones, is too painful, too close. Art critic Jonathan Jones states, “... it is human and healthy to see art as less intense than reality itself. Yet that does not mean art is cold or cannot move us. Rather, that removal from the world is the frame that allows art to make us see reality more clearly and with fresh emotion.”