Here’s tonight’s progress. A piece that is loosely titled Would she ever live up to her mother’s expectations. It aims to question both the expectations we have of our children and their potential; paired with the expectations we place on ourselves to be the children that our parents intended. Dual guilt in this one. I used the Virgin Mary mold on this one to represent an image of motherhood to present a dialogue about societal pressures to be the perfect mother. And I used a portion of a memorial baby plate to reference the ways in which is desperately attempt to mark the landmarks of our children’s lives, documenting every moment for the future, whist ignoring the chance, or being unable, to live in the present.
carole, looks like you're having a ball. the pieces look great and all that thinking without interruption… i can't imagine. i particularly like the idea about documenting the life of the child while not actually living in the moment. sofia's grandma saved everything from her mom's childhood and now we get a steady stream of memorabilia for her childhood. the irony is that neither or us want it and she doesn't actually remember anything about it anyway. most gets tossed as we don't have a place to store unneeded stuff.