Dear Georgia
2024
40” by 48”
Handknitted copper wire, wax, twine, latex paint on wood panel.
For the exhibition, Nobody Sees a Flower by the 44.4 Mother/Artist Collective at the Ottawa Art Gallery, March 1-31. Inspired by Georgia OKeeffe’s painting, Jimson Weed/White Flower No.1, which sold for $44.4 million (the highest selling work by a female artist to date). O’Keeffe never had children despite wanting them, because she did not believe motherhood and artmaking were compatible. She once said "When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment.” I imagine the flower and motherhood as synonymous, but of the two only the mother fully understands the immersive and transformative experience of becoming someone’s entire world.
Dear Georgia
2024
40” by 48”
Handknitted copper wire, wax, twine, latex paint on wood panel.
For the exhibition, Nobody Sees a Flower by the 44.4 Mother/Artist Collective at the Ottawa Art Gallery, March 1-31. Inspired by Georgia OKeeffe’s painting, Jimson Weed/White Flower No.1, which sold for $44.4 million (the highest selling work by a female artist to date). O’Keeffe never had children despite wanting them, because she did not believe motherhood and artmaking were compatible. She once said "When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment.” I imagine the flower and motherhood as synonymous, but of the two only the mother fully understands the immersive and transformative experience of becoming someone’s entire world.