In this work, I was thinking about the physical experience of birth: its sounds, pressure, and strange bodily intensity. I was interested in the coloring of a newborn baby, which can appear grey, purple, or almost bruised at first, and imagined that same coloring extending to the mother’s body. Here, the maternal figure becomes cold, stone-like, and slightly monstrous. The ripples and silver marks suggest sound, water, and touch moving between the two bodies.