Author: Christina MacRae

My background zigzags between working in Early Years settings, both as a teacher and as an artist, and in research. My thesis (and later research projects), in turn, have crisscrossed child development theories, critical and materialist writings and art theory. I put myself forward as a contributor for The egg, the womb, the head and the moon because I am interested in thinking about the ways that we, as adults in general, form relationships with children; both as part of the intimate relationships that we build with our own children, but also the relationships that we form with children more widely. I have been collecting eggshells over the last year because I am drawn to the paradox that as objects they are both extremely robust as well as very fragile. These are qualities that I want to explore in relation to thinking about care: caring for others, being caring and taking care.

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Here is my Christmas shrine to Mary of Calendaria.  She came to me in the RSPCA shop in Todmorden – a picture on plastic plate souvenir from Tenerife.  She is a syncretic black virgin.  Her statue became a focus of … Continued