MILKSCAPES

Milkscapes is an ongoing series made by pouring a small amount of my breast milk onto a sheet of glass (the first instance of this stemming from an accidental spill after laborious pumping). The milk dries in abstract shapes, highlighting an otherwise invisible labor. The glass is then photographed, and the image is printed large-scale. Scale is crucial here. An intimate yet highly labored and nuanced exchange transforms into a sublime moment of viewing, suggesting how personal space becomes blurred or even nonexistent as a mother. By exposing the process of lactation, these Milkscapes illuminate one way in which the female body is repeatedly called on to perform and to produce.