OFFSPRING
of motherhood & artmaking
OFFSPRING: of motherhood & artmaking is an artist book completed in 2017 to contain my visual reflections on being an artist and a mother. The pages contain photography-based mixed-media portraits of my children. While they are portraits of my own specific children, at its core, Offspring is an expressive photography book about childhood and the passage of time through the lens of an artist-mother.
The images that comprise the series itself are made with antique & toy cameras, and a variety of films. Some are multiple in-camera exposures, while others are transformed with metal leaf or embroidery.
This project is an embodiment of my art manifesto, where I choose to embrace the tension of making artwork in the context of family life. I completed this book during the first year of my Artist Residency in Motherhood, and is a visual companion to my other reflections on life as an artist-mother.
selection of images created for OFFSPRING series
full view of the interior of the OFFSPRING book
EXHIBITION HISTORY
images from the OFFSPRING series have appeared at B[x] in Brooklyn, NY, DAB Arts in Ventura, CA, Lightbox Gallery in Astoria, OR, and at Sojourn Arts in Louisville, KY.
