M.A.M.A. – The Riddle, The Interior Vacation, and the Mother House [LINK]

Category: Art, MAMA, motherhood Tags: Anna Fennel Hughes, Elise Gregory, MAMA, Mom Egg Review, Mother House, Mothers are making art, museum of motherhood, procreate project

The Riddle (2017)

This stop-motion animation, made from collaged monoprints

The work focusses on the loss of self-identity in early motherhood. What is left of a person’s personality once the numerous responsibilities and anxieties are taken on.

Anna Fennel Hughes is a freelance artist creating monoprints that are often used to form illustrations, animations and textiles. She works from her small printmaking studio in northern Italy, but studied and graduated with first class honours from Duncan of Jordanstone, Scotland.

POETRY WITH THE MOM EGG REVIEW

Elise Gregory

The interior vacation

can’t be taken with small ones.

Times are set for such things: bed,

naps, or best “quiet time.”

Before dredging internal lakes,

the child must be watered and set out

or fought into bed.

Moms must wonder if

a brick wall may be more swift—

a long-term vacation.

Though a concussion makes for poor

interiors, chances are your mate

feeds the babes while you sleep

for a month.

I’ve wondered where all the titles,

and two-cent words have gone.

Say I was given a weekend with hiking

boots and head lamp. Perhaps I could find

my misbegotten learning.

The problem remains: I have no

maps and little training—the trail littered

with roots and misplaced anger.

Maybe rethink the bikini….

Slip in the revolver. Call what my mind game is—

an internal bear hunt.

Elise Gregory tends gardens, sheep, goats, chickens, three human children, and one spouse. Her poems have appeared in Stoneboat, Rock & Sling, Sweet: A Literary Confection, Cider Press Review, Women Arts Quarterly and elsewhere. Her second chapbook is forthcoming from dancing girl press. All We Can Hold: Poems of Motherhood, which she co-edited with Emily Gwinn was published by Sage Hill Press in 2016. www.allwecanhold.com

The Museum of Motherhood, the ProCreate Project, the Mom Egg Review, and the Mother Magazine are pleased to announce the launch of a bi-monthly international exchange of ideas and art. M.A.M.A. will celebrate the notion of being “pregnant with ideas” in new ways. This scholarly discourse intersects with the artistic to explore the wonder and the challenges of motherhood. Using words and art to connect new pathways between the creative, the academic, the para-academic, the digital, and the real, as well as the everyday: wherever you live, work, and play, the Art of Motherhood is made manifest. Download the Press Release here or read about updated initiatives. #JoinMAMA @ProcreateProj @MOMmuseum @TheMomEgg

Announcing the Mother House Opening in England

M.A.M.A. – The Riddle, The Interior Vacation, and the Mother House [LINK]

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