While the motherhood journey is filled with joyous moments it is also, by its very nature, messy with rough edges and frayed seams.  The experience of motherhood changes a woman immediately, and leaves her with a collection of “marks.”  Laugh lines, stretch marks, depression, loneliness- all are permanently etched onto her being.    Life becomes a balancing act of acknowledging and accepting that she is forever changed, and finding ways to retain a sense of self.  Using the application of a variety of natural dyeing methods to the hand-hooked surface, I attempt to replicate these marks in a tangible way.  The results are always variable and unpredictable, much like the experience of motherhood itself. 

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