Aimee Koran is a visual artist who works across mediums, and questions how the images, issues, and objects closely associated with motherhood inform the social-political structure of the care economy. In the process, personal possessions – some mass produced, some handed down, and some handmade – synonymous with pregnancy, infanthood, and parenting are transformed. Through slight formal manipulations of scale, color, or material, she exposes how memories are easily shifted, as refuse now performs as relic.​​
"My practice highlights both the tension and the tenderness that materializes between mother and child through archiving the abstraction and sentimentality of the everyday. Familiarly mundane moments of daily routines, baby clothes that have long been outgrown, and abandoned stuffed animals become stand-ins for the accumulation of time and labor spent over years of care-taking."
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"I clench tightly to the now discarded objects, the relics of their smallness. I save them, I honor them, I cut them apart, I reassemble them, I encapsulate them. I line them up proudly like trophies; awarding myself the permission to long for the times I once wished would go by faster. Embedded in both my memory and my body forever; monuments to motherhood."
