Matrescence:The Becoming of Care
Karolak + Lesley Onstott
“After childhood and adolescence, there is no other time in an adult human’s life course which entails such dramatic psychological, social and physical change.”
- Matrescence by Lucy Jones
Within an intimate installation, visitors encounter mothers’voices, stories, and creative artifacts that illuminate how caregiving reshapes who we are and how we relate to one another. It explores how relationships of care influence moments of profound transformation.The project amplifies mothers’experiences while inviting reflection, dialogue, and continued inquiry into how societies value and honor the work of care –particularly through pregnancy, birth and motherhood – and how these values shape our collective capacity to give and receive care.
Themes include: metamorphosis, nestedness, invisibility, passage, thresholds The following slideshare examples of media that may be incorporated into our exhibit.
This is a clip from an experimental animation piece in which the mother-to-be decorated material using a cyanotype process. Images on the material represent her growing shape, as well as the natural world, with which the mother was feeling especially in kinship with during her pregnancy.The soundtrack are sounds that attempt to mimic motions and expressions her baby was creating inside her.
Another experimental video exploring craving during the early months of pregnancy and the connection to nostalgia and childhood memory.
