The Motherhood project, Navigating doubts, desires, and the possibilities of motherhood
Project in collaboration Lena Weber
The idea for this project emerged from intimate conversations and shared reflections on the possibility of motherhood, particularly as queer individuals navigating a world shaped by heteronormative and patriarchal ideals. To become a mother or not to become a mother: this question felt like dancing on the edge of the void, grappling with doubts, fears, and the weight of expectation. In this project, we explore the taboo and complexity of motherhood through our own experiences—how it intersects with trauma, mental health, family, and our partners. Inspired by fragments of our own lives, family secrets suddenly unveiled, and poems written in dialogue, our work is a reflection through films, photography, poetry, and collage, it gives space for these questions and open up a broader conversation about queer experiences of motherhood.
Project in collaboration Lena Weber
The idea for this project emerged from intimate conversations and shared reflections on the possibility of motherhood, particularly as queer individuals navigating a world shaped by heteronormative and patriarchal ideals. To become a mother or not to become a mother: this question felt like dancing on the edge of the void, grappling with doubts, fears, and the weight of expectation. In this project, we explore the taboo and complexity of motherhood through our own experiences—how it intersects with trauma, mental health, family, and our partners. Inspired by fragments of our own lives, family secrets suddenly unveiled, and poems written in dialogue, our work is a reflection through films, photography, poetry, and collage, it gives space for these questions and open up a broader conversation about queer experiences of motherhood.
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This video and poem are part of our exploration questioning motherhood—dancing with doubts and fears. The world could have been nothing: a reflection on the void and the making of a new consciousness through body movement. The video is based on a poem written by Lena, inspired by WhatsApp audio exchanges between us.
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At ten you dreamt of infinity
dipped fingers into years to come; felt the weight of a universe, the weight of life, told your aunt you couldn't sleep. Now you touch skin touched by one lover, two, taught with years to come, taught with self, taught with animality, you ask to rest, ask if an infant is conscious of death, ask for more years, ask if choice can be given. The other day you got high and for a few seconds returned to that eternity, begged to come home. You remembered the absence of light remembered loss, how fine the line is between falling and flight yes you ask for more years you ask to be an animal you ask for rest you ask if choice can be given, a gift, if you give life do you also give the pain of death? |
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COLLAGES
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THE PROCESS
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An ongoing conversation with Skype meeting
what's app audio poems and photos |
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