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.

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.

̈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.”