Untitled (Mother) is a hand stitched booklet that explores in text the psycho-social construction of femininity impacting my mother into believing that motherhood would be the ultimate form of life fulfillment. Now that her children are all grown up, confusion and regret overwhelms her, but she still doesn't understand why. Mother now spends most of her time hoarding, cleaning and cooking... But is she happy now with the life that she has made for herself?
This was the first piece of work I ever created about my mother back in 2016. I remember working on it over and over again because I was so afraid to show it to other people, and now looking back I am so proud of how far I have come.
I had never made work so personal before and never even articulated how I was feeling so succinctly to my friends, let alone strangers. I tried so hard to understand my mother by explaining how she must be feeling, until I realised I had actually been avoiding how it made me feel.
I haven't been able to read the zine since because it was worded so poorly, but the idea and how it made me feel at the time is still something I hold dearly to me.
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