Contribution for THE MOMENT Issue 02, A Quarterly Publication from Boketto Wellness

Each issue interrogates a single word, by a coterie of humans, through various mediums. Issue 02: EXPRESSION

“time stopped, time remembered, time recreated”

Louise Bourgeois

ON BALANACING: A MATERNAL LENS ON EXPRESSION & MOTHERHOOD

If I could paint from inside this place / All of the hours / I’d have piles of perfect tone and composition / Translations from my busy mind / Days running into weeks, months, years

I’ve been over-thinking into the vast ether of creation / How to make visible the deepest intensity of motherhood? / Time stood still

I wait for the delicate place where intentional silence and fluid expression collide, a conversation / Balancing there

Abstract emotion / Becoming mothers, we change in an instant / Alchemy: pigments colliding, dancing with water

Expressed milk from my tired body / Symbiosis: we are the language of renewal and becoming / Flowing versions of ourselves towards one another

This is the balance / To make the invisible, visible

A maternal lens on expression