"The Lookout", Graphite on Paper, 50 x 37 inches, 2022

Mom Brain

drawing, exhibition install, figurative, landscape, photograph, self portrait, still life, studio photograph

2018-2022

“Mom Brain” fuses elements of realism with the transformative nature of new motherhood in a global pandemic. In a time when life is hectic, yet simultaneously meandering and repetitive, these drawings make a conscious effort to process my surroundings and experiences: the longing, isolation, anxiety, uncertainty, and coping. Fleeting moments are captured. The act of drawing slows down time, while observation alters and shapes memory. They become meditations on the act of observing, and on being and becoming.

"The Lookout", Graphite on Paper, 50 x 37 inches, 2022

"The Lookout", Graphite on Paper, 50 x 37 inches, 2022

Mom Brain, Graphite on paper, 50 x 38 inches, 2018

Mom Brain, Graphite on paper, 50 x 38 inches, 2018

"First Embrace", Graphite on Paper, 40 x 60 inches, 2020

"First Embrace", Graphite on Paper, 40 x 60 inches, 2020

"Pieces of Me", Graphite on Paper, 50 x 37 inches, 2020

"Pieces of Me", Graphite on Paper, 50 x 37 inches, 2020

"Valentine", Graphite on Paper, 37 x 37 inches, 2020

"Valentine", Graphite on Paper, 37 x 37 inches, 2020

"The Family Jewels", Graphite on Paper, 50 x 37 inches, 2020

"The Family Jewels", Graphite on Paper, 50 x 37 inches, 2020

"Masked", Graphite on Paper, 50 x 37 inches, 2021

"Masked", Graphite on Paper, 50 x 37 inches, 2021

"Inside", Graphite on Paper, 45 x 37 inches, 2020

"Inside", Graphite on Paper, 45 x 37 inches, 2020

"Makeover (22nd Day of Quarentine", Graphite on Paper, 50 x 37 inches, 2020

"Makeover (22nd Day of Quarentine", Graphite on Paper, 50 x 37 inches, 2020

"Raising Butterflies", Graphite on Paper, 50 x 37 inches, 2020

"Raising Butterflies", Graphite on Paper, 50 x 37 inches, 2020

"Summer Still Life", Graphite on Paper, 50 x 37 inches, 2021

"Summer Still Life", Graphite on Paper, 50 x 37 inches, 2021

TBONE Bingo, Graphite on paper, 38 x 38 inches

TBONE Bingo, Graphite on paper, 38 x 38 inches

The Fringe, Graphite on paper, 38 x 50 inches

The Fringe, Graphite on paper, 38 x 50 inches

Origin (Bathing Together), Graphite on paper, 30 x 44 inches

Origin (Bathing Together), Graphite on paper, 30 x 44 inches

Installation at Second Street Gallery.  Image Courtesy of Stacey Evans Photography and Second Street Gallery.

Installation at Second Street Gallery. Image Courtesy of Stacey Evans Photography and Second Street Gallery.

Image Courtesy of Stacey Evans Photography and Second Street Gallery.

Image Courtesy of Stacey Evans Photography and Second Street Gallery.