All the love we created, 2022

HD single channel video

17 minutes 9 seconds

This work was developed on Kaurna Country

Warning: This work contains the nude body.

Location: DB4-09

 

This is a performative articulation of my experiences of motherhood. A documentation of my body’s role as a mother. I watched it change, the skin stretching, bones shifting and muscles tearing. Through the moving image, I am reflecting upon my body’s maternal process and the capabilities of a woman’s body. The soundscape is a continuation of the body, it is constant nourishment, giving, feeding, and endless rocking. It is a documentation of the body that now is the mother’s body, the hanging breasts, the stretched skin, and a softer figure. This is a body that did not feel like my own, I had to become accustomed to and accept this new maternal figure. This archiving is a completely honest reflection of my experience. It is through these processes of making that I wish to acknowledge this journey of pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding and to celebrate this beautiful, ephemeral stage in my life that is motherhood.