My work explores the intersections of motherhood, feminist theory, and aesthetics of care. I center maternal experience not just as a subject but as a methodology, one rooted in repetition, relationality, and embodied knowledge. Drawing on the writings of Sara Ruddick, Suzi Gablik, and Yuriko Saito, I treat caregiving not as an obstacle to art-making, but as a generative framework for it.
Influenced by Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ Maintenance Art, I integrate domestic labor into my creative practice, often collaborating with my children or incorporating gestures that mimic the repetitive and tactile nature of care. I seek to challenge fixed cultural symbols, like the serene or self-sacrificing mother, by sculpting and depicting abstract intertwined structures and shapes along with expressive mark-making, to evoke the contradictions of motherhood: intimacy and isolation, joy and frustration.
Informed by care ethics and aesthetic philosophy, my work reclaims domestic space and maternal knowledge as sites of artistic and political significance. I aim to create art that not only reflects personal experience but participates in a broader cultural dialogue, challenging modernist ideals of detachment and advocating for an art that is interconnected and life-affirming.