Exporlations in maternal idenity after child loss

These self-portraits are an exploration that aims to examine Material Identity after child loss. The examinations and socialization of being a mother but not a parent.

For almost twenty years, I’ve been documenting myself in an attempt to understand how losing my daughter and having a miscarriage changed my personality, affected my social behaviors, and how education throughout that time changed my perception of my identity as a woman, a mother, a bereaved mother.