secrets and lies (1998)
The woman counts her periods over the months and writes letters to an un-conceived child; the girl, a ghostly adult, writes back. Sometimes, the woman writes to her own mother and father. The words bleed together. The reproductive body as a source of failure.
40 drawings (one for each week of gestation) on Canson Montval watercolour paper.
Exhibited in the group exhibitions Bringing Up Baby: Artists Survey the Reproductive Body, curated by Terry Kurgan, Standard Bank Festival of the Arts, Grahamstown, South Africa; The Castle B-Block, Cape Town; Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, 1998; M’escriuràs una carta?, Museu d’Art de Girona, Girona, Spain, 2000.
