Pregnant Impressions

During my recent pregnancy I was perpetually nauseous and my Crohns Colitis flared.  There were days when all I could manage was to spit out the gum I was chewing and save it for some vague project. I gathered the gum the way I used to collect dried plants, paper, photographs, and writings. I see the gum as an extension of my body--a nonnourishing food that was inside me and took on parts of me (my saliva, my teeth marks). I saved about 150 pieces for my evolving project Pregnancy Curiosities. It is a taxonomy of my pregnancy, motherhood, and of my continually changing body.

Arks 

Small wood containers inscribed with Hebrew text from Song of Songs.  These house small cyanotype and gampi paper scrolls.