Size: 120cm x 100cm
Medium: acrylic on canvas
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This piece brings emotional depth into a space. Its soft grounded palette allows it to sit beautifully within calm interiors. This work often feels deeply personal. It speaks to motherhood, daughterhood and identity in a way that is both intimate and universal. Whether collected as a reflection on your own relationship with your mother, your experience of becoming one, or as a reminder of the complexity of womanhood, this piece brings warmth, conversation and emotional presence into a home.
I See Her Differently Now
Suspended Between Two Identities: A Woman and a Mother.
The Story Behind the Artwork
This work comes from a place of distance. It is an attempt to understand something I have not lived through, but was made through. When I was creating this painting, I thought of my mother.
As a child, my mother existed within a fixed role, but the older I get, the more I begin to see her not only as a parent but as a woman whose life and body went through a profound transformation.
Through this lens, pregnancy becomes a threshold: the moment where a woman is still entirely herself yet already beginning to change into someone new.
Visual elements
The colours in this piece are used so that you do not assume closeness of simplicity within a relationship between a woman and her mother. It allows for the many ways that connection can exist.
The palette remains open, inviting you to find your own emotional entry point. For some, these colours might feel tender and comforting, for others it might be more confronting.
The work holds space for something more layered and not always easy to understand.
Meaning and intent
This painting was created from the perspective of a daughter trying to make sense of a moment that shaped her life. It considers pregnancy as a state suspended between two identities: a woman and a mother.
At its core, this painting signifies the moment you begin to see your mother not just as a parent but as a woman first.
Display recommendations
This piece brings emotional depth into a space. Its soft grounded palette allows it to sit beautifully within calm interiors. This work often feels deeply personal. It speaks to motherhood, daughterhood and identity in a way that is both intimate and universal. Whether collected as a reflection on your own relationship with your mother, your experience of becoming one, or as a reminder of the complexity of womanhood, this piece brings warmth, conversation and emotional presence into a home.