UNINHABITABLE, 2017
acrylic on wood
A PHYSICAL STUDY IN REVERSE CHILD-PROOFING AS A METAPHOR FOR THE HUMAN BODY AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF INFERTILITY
"I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. Yet she will be saved through childbearing — if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control." ( 1 Timothy 2:12-15)
“Women often begin to imagine themselves as mothers long before actually trying to have children, and this is certainly influenced by implicit cultural and societal messages that idealize motherhood. When this imagined self of a mother, however tentative, is withdrawn, it may result in feeling a loss of control, threaten her imagined future, cause her to doubt her womanhood, and feel like an assault on her ability to self-actualize.” -Marni Rosner, DSW, LCSW