Summation

July 10th, 2025, Graphite and White Chalk on Toned Paper

In uniting to form a family, parents sacrifice a portion of their bodies, lives, and individuality for the sake of the next generation. This self-destruction is physical for the one who gives birth, and less physical for the one who does not. Pieces of her porcelain flesh have been given to the man and child as wings. To conceive and to co-parent the child with the father, she must accept and uplift a man even in his moments of hollowness, even in the fact that he will never fully understand what has happened to her body. The child points to her father, saying, "you must embrace this man to make me exist." And she does. The light and the dark, the empathy and the detachment, are all summed together to form the new creature and the family unit.