Mothership is a series of stuffed paintings made from cell phone photographs of my life during the pandemic, in which my children play a central role. They are altered with paint, glitter, found material and stuffed forms. Through a push/pull between dimensional space, illusionistic rendering, and the perceived truthiness of the photograph, these image-objects work formally to convey the sense of embodied chaos and maternal ambivalence of sheltering in place with young children.
