Mother Canon

A project investigating the relationship women have with motherhood from a feminist perspective.

[thunderstruck9]

Loie Hollowell (American, 1983), Milk Fountain, 2019. Oil, acrylic, sawdust and high density foam on linen mounted on panel, 71⅞ x 54 x 3¾ in.

[milksockets]

'nun with deep sorrow on the left + with ecstatic joy on the right' + 'maternal happiness mixed with pain, a pscyhological and aesthetic study of the expression resulting from the conflict of joy + crying' by duchenne de boulogne, 1862 in ghost in the shell: photography + the human soul, 1850-2000 - robert a. sobieszek (1999)

[garlicbread4lyfe]

there is no milk.

[mothercanon]

"There was something so valuable about what happened when one became a mother. For me it was the most liberating thing that ever happened to me. Liberating because the demands that children make are not the demands of a normal 'other.' The children's demands on me were things that nobody ever asked me to do. To be a good manager. To have a sense of humor. To deliver something that somebody could use. And they were not interested in all the things that other people were interested in, like what I was wearing or if I were sensual. Somehow all of the baggage that I had accumulated as a person about what was valuable just fell away. I could not only be me-whatever that was— but somebody actually needed me to be that. If you listen to [your children], somehow you are able to free yourself from baggage and vanity and all sorts of things, and deliver a better self, one that you like. The person that was in me that I liked best was the one my children seemed to want."

From Toni Morrison and Motherhood: A Politics of the Heart

[thewomanwithmissingfingers]

Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami, 2020

[mothercanon]

Harry Harlow’s fake mother experiment

[ololygas]

social skills training, solmaz sharif