Gravida contemplates the porous threshold between mother and child, where cells, memories, and emotions intermingle. The swelling blob-like form embraces the aesthetics of excess, revealing the maternal body as both chaotic and serene, monstrous and tender. Layers of blue and green ink float over a hidden field of neon pink painted on the reverse of the translucent film, glimpsed only in flashes—like the traces a child leaves within the mother’s body.
Here I meditate on the period during and after birth, when separation is not real yet. The baby is out of the body, but the mother is still organized around the baby. Feeding, sleep, need, and attention keep them physically and emotionally linked. I wanted the work to hold that in-between state, where boundaries are not clean.