Motherhood came to me recently through several unexpected life shifts.  After neglecting my true passions and focusing on a life that was not right for me, the past few years have been dedicated to rebuilding a life for myself that prioritizes my wellbeing and creative center.  It seems like I needed to lose myself to find myself, and in doing so I became open to what that creative center could mean – what that creative center could expand to.  The past nine months have changed the gravity around me.  My body, my mind, my community have all taken on new weights and the trajectory of my path has become both clear and unpredictable as I’ve focused on who I want to be as an individual so that I can be that much stronger as a mother.  As the reality of bringing life into this world settled in I affirmed my desire to become someone who fully embraces life, not questioning their potential or what might have been. 

In this work I wanted to open myself up to everything that I was feeling – emotionally and physically.  When I learned I was pregnant I felt the weight of responsibility and the lightness of possibility so strongly.  As my body grew and the needs of what I was carrying grew stronger, the way my life shifted around another’s propelled me into a new chapter of learning about myself and what bodies are surrounding me. 

 Impossibly Small, Cosmically Infinite is a reflection on the mix of anticipation of my child and body mapping the movements and weight I was physically feeling through pregnancy.