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STATEMENT OF WORK
Suddenly I was spending my time sitting and lying down, nursing, looking at the baby. I worried a lot about the future, trying to think how to be ready for it. At the same time, I knew that this experience would be over quickly and it was important to be present in it. I made drawings to focus my attention in the moment, to record it, and to distract and entertain myself.
I thought about all the other mothers out there now and in the past, how they might have felt. I read about the history of the breast pump. I watched videos of chimpanzees nursing in trees. I looked at paintings of the Virgin Mary. I read a few firsthand accounts of motherhood, and I made these paintings from my drawings.
I want to show mothering from the inside -- to share with people who know it firsthand, to describe it to those who don’t remember.