EARTH MOTHERS

Jordemoder, Sage-Femme, Hebamme, Ebe, Qabila, Josan-shi, Daee, Ostetrica, Partera, Ferloskundige, Cnáimhseach, Bába, Midwife.

Mothers of the earth. Mothers of life.

Earth Mothers emerges from a quiet ecofeminist resistance to the extraction of bodies, land, and meaning. It explores the rupture between humans and the living world, and how that separation is felt in the body, the landscape, and the ways we make meaning.

The figure of the midwife sits at the heart of the work. Midwives work at thresholds—between life and death, vulnerability and power, uncertainty and transformation—and they keep showing up. They witness what the body can do, what it cannot control, and what must be lived through. I am interested in women like that, and in what happens when the same gaze is turned toward the earth: Perhaps she is our midwife, again and again.

The first series brings women's bodies into dialogue with trees and forests. In landscapes shaped by logging, stormfall and ecological stress, bodies and trees appear both distinct and entangled—skin and bark, vulnerability and endurance. The work asks what happens when the boundaries between body and landscape begin to loosen, and how we might remain in relationship within a damaged, interdependent world.

I like to think of our attention as a form of care. Not everything can be repaired. Some things need to be held. And some things simply need us to keep showing up.

Earth Mothers is an ongoing inquiry into how we make and remake our relationship with the living world.

Skin meets Bark is the working title for an artist book I am envisioning based upon the Earth Mother investigation. This Fall, I will be working on the writing and doing material experimentation during my residency at Hald Ege - Author and Translation Center. .

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