187

Textiles, 88 x 68 cm.

187 is the number of school lunches that I make for my youngest child in one school year. This mundane, repetitive task is just one of many that I do each day and like most others, it goes unrecognized. How appropriate that I use the slow technique of rug hooking, a traditionally female art form, to consider the devalued labour of women and mothers. Its slow rhythm is in opposition to much of the pace of the motherhood journey. Yet each loop of yarn brings me closer to elevating and recognizing the experiences that we as mothers have long been told society is not comfortable hearing.