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Gallery: In Your Hands
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This series of mixed media works, In Your Hands, comments on the immeasurable weight placed on mothers from the late 1800s to today by our society’s attachment to scientific motherhood — the insistence that women require expert scientific and medical advice to raise their children healthfully. To this day, women are largely held responsible for the majority of child rearing tasks, yet simultaneously they are taught that they are incapable of this job without being told exactly what to do. In these works, photo transfers of my hands hold the invisible weight of responsibility while poetry muddles and subverts the advice from a popular parenting guide, In Your Hands, first published in 1920.