Artist Statement

Twenty years later is a personal photography story diving into my grief as a bereaved mother. My daughter died twenty years ago this coming January. Over the years I've gotten an advanced education, devoted myself to therapy, and devoted my artistic process to my grief. I wrote a short memoir in which I question grief, stigma, definitions of motherhood, procreation and what it means to continue procreating after loss or choosing not to procreate and the societal judgment of all of it. Each day as I research, contemplate, and photograph the questions I have around motherhood, loss, grief, kinship, continue to build while the answers continue to elude me. This project is my response to those moments, the questions, and my way of creating answers. It’s how I'm choosing to look at my experience, how I'm choosing to share it, and how it sits with me after all these years. There are self-portraits, glimpses of light, areas in which I visit, and glimpses of others in my life. Moments of contemplation around my loss. Who would I be as a mother, who would my child be, what does it mean to be a mother after loss. Neonatal Loss comes with many challenges. Depression, confusion, adjustments, the biggest issue being societal stigma and social challenges.ins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business.