In late 2021 I finished work on “Mom”, a large-scale porcelain installation for the Bronx Museum’s Biannial, which depicted a snake-like mother figure, with countless hands and breasts, all preforming the work of caring for a child. Since finishing that project I have been making a series of smaller works based on the faces and bodies of mothers.
Some of the Mother Figure portraits are completely imagined. Others are based on selfies that my friends and relatives send me, and a few inspired by the frescoes left behind in Pompeii. I imagine them all as worried moms- not panicked, not distraught, just that kind of frown parents wear on their faces as they hold in their minds all their children’s needs, schedules, preoccupations big and small.
