Tout Maman Ayiti celebrates the women who collectively raise children by becoming part of a family.

Created using a variety of pigments from acrylic paint, watercolor, inks, bubbles, and soap, allowing the media to drip down the surface of the canvas, this piece came together over many years during the journey of adoption. Inserting oneself into a timeline that has unfolded through hundreds of years, one person is an insertion in a vast timeframe, an interruption in a chain of events unfolding. To keep the lifeline continuing, a circle of life and a march of motherhood that will love going forward, whiteness interrupted. In Haiti, there are mountains beyond mountains, and in this journey, life will continue. Love will love again, and children will grow up and have their own children, and the cycle of life will grow and regrow. Mothers will give birth, and children will have the mothers of their past looking from over their shoulders, fondly, with love. The interruption of whiteness to help the cycle continue may or may not matter at some point, for it will continue. So long as there are children after children, the mountains beyond mountains will be climbed with the help of every mother who came before.