01/11/2026
First (almost) finished work of 2026 🎉🎉🎉
“Five Days Around the Bed”, reconstructed brown fleece, brown winter, hand sewn together with brown thread,
60”x32”, 2026.
After birth, spending my time in bed with my babies was crucial to postpartum healing. It also goes against the grain of our “bounce back” culture where doing is viewed as productive vs rest. This work represents my daily, mundane task of leaving my bed and walking to my dresser situated adjacent to my bed; leaking milk onto the floor as I carefully and slowly stretch my body, while holding my new baby.
Next, I will completely finish this work by hand embroidering my “milk drips” onto the floor- the last tangible memory I hold onto of my early postpartum days. I cannot clean my floors too well, and clean around these milk drips in my bedroom floor (a little gross, maybe!), but I just cannot clean these milk drips off the floor. My goal is to capture these memories within this work itself. An artifact of my memory.
