Gravid: Mothers of Monsters is an ongoing series of sculptural works that reimagine mythologized femme figures—often cast as monstrous—as complex symbols of generative power, unruly wisdom, and transformative potential. Drawing from global myths and personal narrative, the series centers the embodied experience of creation: not as serene ideal, but as a visceral, often chaotic process of becoming.

Each piece in the series—whether inspired by Tiamat, Echidna, Aglæcwif, or others—invokes the gestational state as metaphor for artistic and cultural labor: messy, disruptive, demanding, and full of possibility. These figures are not villains, but visionary ancestors—bearing the weight of worlds, and birthing futures that threaten the status quo.

Constructed from salvaged industrial materials, natural remnants, and repurposed consumer castoffs, the works channel a tension between the discarded and the sacred. Through intricate hand-knotting, layering, and improvisational building, the sculptures evoke tangled myth, interior terrain, and the dignity of the misunderstood.

In reclaiming these monstrous mothers, Gravid celebrates the fierce and fertile power of those who create under pressure, who carry difference, and who dare to bring new realities into being.