image ID: an oil painting of a woman in a long black coat with dark curly hair standing in front of a large and oddly shaped tree. inside a hollow is a fetus. she is holding the umbilical cord in one hand.
better daughters
this piece is an oil reproduction of a photo taken of my mother a few years before i was born, although artistic liberties were taken. she stands beside a tree with a fetus gestating in its hollow. in the world of this painting, she has yet to be resigned to lifelong motherhood, which begs the question: how can you save your mother from a future you inhabit?