After birth, the body feels both ancient and new—
a vessel shedding, rooting, remembering.
What remains, what grows, what keeps becoming.
Furthering my exploration of the mother-and-child motif, The Long After meditates on the metamorphic quality of the postpartum body. The figure—part woman, part shell, perhaps even part tree—suggests something simultaneously earthly and otherworldly, tender and monstrous. Drawn from images of myself with my son in the postpartum period, the work evokes mythic origins and natural forms, from the birth of Adonis to the grain of bark and the strata of stone.