Congratulations Amy, I did wonder if your blog absence was down to baby. Hope you’re healing well.
Have you read A Life’s Work by Rachel Cusk? The way she writes about motherhood is amazing, so honest, so different to all the other accounts I’ve read – I saw echoes of it in your blog today.

I think motherhood is a domestic thing to make art about, but the domestic is really not something easy or indulgent to consider. I love Volver by Almodovar, which to me is about mother love, like lots of his films.

Your clear-sighted gaze at this new experience is remarkable. I love the drawings – they really give the sense of a human being looking at another human being with respect for an experience of discovery that we can only barely imagine.

Hi Amy – thank you for sharing so generously. I love your drawings too, he look’s amazing – congratulations. I think to make art truthfully about motherhood is so courageous and generous and just a brilliantly worthwhile thing to be doing. And as an artist what choice do you have – but to authentically create in response to visceral experiences?

Congratulations Amy. You’ve just entered a new world. You may as well make work about it if that’s what currently motivates you. Not self-indulgent, not unprofessional. Real, raw life. Good luck with your work as a parent and an artist.

how great to read these comments, it is now 6 months later and I just love the little man in my life. thank you all for the encouragement. and Georgie for the tip about A Life’s Work by Rachel Cusk, i’ll check it out.

should post more often great read

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