'A Mother's Love's Labour's Lost'
Performance Drawing Installation as part of the 'Landed' exhibition @ Loughborough University 2020
A Mother’s Love’s Labour’s Lost (2020), Drawing Performance, Prints and Video. The work was performed at Loughborough University in March 2021. It includes a video projection, live performance and prints. The work was based on visualising maternal labour. The video shows a slowed down recording of myself balling children’s school socks. This video is then played on my mobile phone which hangs around my neck and which I draw from using a Kolam drawing technique. Through a practice of performance drawing the work translated a recorded act of balling socks into a repetitive ritualistic process of drawing. Using food ingredients and drawing through a traditional kolam technique, the act of squeezing salt, flour and pigment through the fingers and thumb imbued the invisible and ephemeral act of drawing with a spiritual significance and a cultural permanence associated with rites of passage.