Crying for two: Matrescence
Pregnancy feels like this: like standing at the edge of something cosmical and unknown, holding tenderness and terror in the same soft hands. It is to be both creator and creature, to build a body while surrendering your own. It is to become a home.
Crying for two: Matrescence
I was never one who dreamt about having children. My art was giving birth to myself every day. Women are witches and I don’t think having a baby is the only magic trick, but I can understand now that is a very strong and special one—the reason why everyone on earth fears our powers.
Crying for two: Matrescence
̈I am overwhelmed by the feeling of having been cast from the womb —and by the cosmos—my art is the way I re-establish the bonds that unite me to the universe.”