The first in a series of drawings made while pregnant. An exercise that began as a way to ease the anxiety of tracking, in that last urgent and unknowable trimester, fetal movements and grew into a kind of collaboration with my son; a communication in line and gesture. The drawings linger and loop longer as he grows, arms and legs twirling, tumbling round and round, always going.
Duration: 35 weeks pregnant until twelve hours into active labor at 40 weeks.
Graphite on paper.
Massachusetts, 2021
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1-11: 35 weeks pregnant, afternoon light, studio, chair hard, much too large to be sitting this way for long, pencil end pressed to belly, pencil point set on various papers fastened to clipboard found in closet.
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