Artist Residency in Motherhood
Left: Dinner in tights. Right: Trademarks, Vito Acconci.
Left: SP-I-SPXII, Josef Albers. Right: Nursery school washcloth duty.
Top: The first lock cut from my son's hair. Bottom: Cradle, Janine Antoni.
Left: I am Making Art, John Baldessari. Right: Accidentally making Baldessari's art on the kitchen floor.
Left: Little Angel. Right: Barberini Faun.
Left: Untitled VW, Lynda Benglis. Right: Breakfast.
Top: On the Town, Cecily Brown. Bottom: Crabs for dinner.
Left: Beam Drop, Chris Burden. Right: Fry dip, my toddler.
Left: Negroni and Milk. Right: Mother and Child, Mary Cassatt.
Top: Where's my boy? Bottom: In Nick Cave's Soundsuit.
Left: Night Sky, Vija Celmins. Right: Baby's hand, spit up.
Top: Spatial Concept (rotated 90 degrees), Lucio Fontana. Bottom: My incision on my son's first birthday.
Left: Barbizon, Helen Frankenthaler. Right: The consequences of not wearing a bra.
Top: Before tweezing (Long Haired Cheese, Robert Gober). Bottom: After tweezing.
Top: Baby's head in my bowl of cereal. Bottom: Van Gogh's Back, Mona Hatoum.
Top: Top of Levitated Mass, Michael Heizer. Bottom: 4:15 a.m., my bed, my pillow.
Left: The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living. Right: The physical impossibility of getting some sleep around here.
Top: Galvanized Steel, Donald Judd. Bottom: A week's worth of folded laundry.
Left: Toys on the kitchen floor. Right: Taut Line, Wassily Kandinsky.
Top: Cloud Gate, Anish Kapoor. Bottom: Dreamland.
Left: The end of a long, hard day. Right: The Snowy Day, Ezra Jack Keats.
Left: White Brushstroke I, Roy Lichtenstein. Right: Black beans for dinner.
Top: Suffolk Bunny, Sarah Lucas. Bottom: Baby Legs.
Top: Maple bacon for breakfast. Bottom: Song, John McCracken.
Left: What I feel like. Right: What I wish I felt like (Blue Poles, Marilyn Minter).
Left: Satiated, Marilyn Minter. Right: Milk Mustache II.
Left: Shinola, Marilyn MInter. Right: Milk Mustache I.
Left: Joan Mitchell, 1961. Right, My son, 2017.
Top: Kid, Elizabeth Murray. Bottom: Kid's dishes.
Left: First day without nursing since becoming a mother. Right: Self Portrait/Nursing, Catherine Opie.
Top: A freshly folded, clean basket of laundry. Bottom: Alchemy, Jackson Pollock.
Left: Olympia, Mel Ramos. Right: The aftermath of the beach.
Top: Chicken taco remnants. Bottom: Coin, Dana Schutz.
Top: It was only a matter of time. Bottom: The Matter of Time, Richard Serra.
Top: Christmas Card, Kiki Smith. Bottom: Dreamland.
Top: What my vaccum collected today. Bottom: Stormy Wreck, J.M.W. Turner.
Top: Blue Planet Sky, James Turell. Right: Family afternoon on the deck with coffee table.
Top: Our toilet. Lit up by some contraption so we can see it in the dark. Purchased by my husband on Amazon. Bottom: Roden Crater, James Turrell.
Left: The Boy with a Sweatshirt Stuck on his Head. Right: The Girl with a Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer.
Left: Asleep, about to wake up. Right: Raise Up, Hank Willis Thomas.
Top: Thread trimmings in my studio. Bottom: Luminance, Terry Winters.
Left: One Minute Sculpture, Erwin Wurm. Right: Nap-long sculpture, placed by my son on his own head before falling asleep.