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I am a mother with a daughter, one precious daughter who is the universe rolled into one person to me. I literally nearly died to give birth to her (I got to a place where I had to choose between going back to the pain and screaming and being at peace in a lovely cool dark place, and I chose to come back for my baby). She is worth all of the things that happened to me that day and so much more. There is such a strange intertwinenedness between us that I feel she has always been in my life, unseen, and I didn't meet her for the first time when she was born--I already knew her. We have a nice companionable relationship and I am so proud of her sweetness, creativity, curiosity, problem solving skills, and ferocity. She inspires me to try new things and create. Sometimes I feel like she has made me into a new, better person. She has certainly helped me to see certain aspects of my personality that I never knew were there before!
And yet there is also that other side of things. She is the parasite that made me lose weight from vomiting so much for 5 months, sapped my energy, made my insides ache from her incessant jumping, caused me to wet my pants in public, and left me with PTSD due to the things that happened when she was born and then from her hospitalization for jaundice soon after. I gained tons of weight AFTER she was born because she ate so slowly and refused to sleep unless I held her, so I couldn't move much. She is the parasite who used up all of my strength and courage with her terrifying impulsiveness, escape and climbing abilities, 3 hour screaming/crying tantrums complete with head banging, sudden violent slaps and even punches despite never having seen anyone punch before, and inability to understand the word "no" unless she was the one saying it. (It turns out that she has ADHD from her dad and is bipolar like me. It explains a lot but just knowing doesn't solve any problems). All of the attention always has to be on her, so that it is rare for me to be able to do anything I want, like create things. Sometimes I feel like she has destroyed me.
tldr: Motherhood is beautiful and scary and magical and complicated, and I think you have captured it amazingly well.
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All of your things are wonderfully beautiful<3
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aMAZING wORK..... I just love it, sO beautiful interpretation !
HATS OFF !
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absolutely amazing. There's really nothing more to be said in my opinion.
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there was a time I would've said it's beautiful, but now it's only creeping me out. And I wonder: who's the mother here?
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Really stunning work! It shows true relationship between mother and her child! Amazing!
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wow.
im almost at a lack for words
this is amazing
it is so simple yet it is stunning
amazing job
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reminds me a lot of the Rodin sculpture. Very nice.
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Love it. Have you thought bout making a father and son one?
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I like how the mother is focusing on the future/ distance and the child is truly a piece of her.
This is incredible. I thought almost so simple... But it's so deep.
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Wow...!!
This is just incredible how intensively you put that feeling mothers and their children share into that picture of your's...!
A bond which make these persons keep together in every place to which the journey might lead, an expression of care and prevision in the mothers' posture of the head, a kind of defence, need and contentment in the childrens' eyes...
So simple-looking drawn and yet so impressive...!
Thank you much for sharing that! : )
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This is beautiful - it makes me think of my daughter and her tremendous love for her own daughter ... the all-encompassing and even somewhat suffocating love that having a child can sometimes bring. You want to keep them as part of you for as long as possible, but eventually you have to let them go their own way - in your depiction, this moving away towards independence would rip a hole in the mother and it can actually feel that way for a time until you realize that it is the natural way of things.
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A mother only seems angry. She's really just worried for your well being. She cares because you truly are a part of her to her. I wish I knew that before I did this to myself thinking she didn't care...
Thank you for a beautiful piece that puts tears in my eyes. I love your style and your vivid imagination. It inspires me to go on to do great things in life!
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That's the most perfect analysis! And I love this piece too.
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Aww, thank you! And it really is a wonderful piece of art isn't it?
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Haha! That's true, and you're welcome.
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Whoa,
So bizzare, yet beautiful in it's own way.
Instant Fav!!!!!!!!!!!
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this is the kind of idea one needs to steal, envious that i didnt come up with it first
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Beautiful! Would you allow me to use it -with due credit of course - to illustrate an article on my blog please?
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Thanks - I sent you a note about it
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My mother referred to my daughter as my "Appendage" for the first year of her life. I feel this. <3
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spectacular! I am a mother of 2 little ones and this is just wonderfully touching.
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I just recently gave birth to my first child, a girl, and your painting really kind of captures the feeling I get when holding her, especially because she looks a lot like me!
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This is so stunningly beautiful. I saw your peice of the teddy bear fighting off the monster on my FB feed, followed it here and voila! As a new mom, this really resonates for me.
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As a mother, this speaks to me in ways I can't describe. Thank you!
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