I’m collecting stories about mothers. I have a purple armchair and a small wooden box engraved with the words, ‘tell me about your mother’.
A little over a year ago, I began asking people to sit in the purple chair and to think about their mothers.
The box, with it’s small round hole, waits to receive the written thoughts – words or drawings describing a relationship with a mother.
I am interested in the idea of ‘the good mother’ – what it means and how it applies to me, as a mother, and as a daughter. And I began to wonder about the thoughts of others….
2 Responses to “The Box and the Purple Chair”
Rebecca Baillie
I think this is a very strong work, both visually and conceptually. I like the parallel to be made with Irene Lusztig’s ‘worry box project’, and in particular in both cases, the significance of a wooden box as womb/tomb space. Boxes in art are of great interest to me.
Tracey Kershaw
Thanks Rebecca. I hadn’t heard of the ‘worry box project’…. so thank you for drawing my attention to it.
Tracey