LIMINAL: Leaving one state behind, entering into another. The in-between of becoming something new.

A waiting room.

A chrysalis.

This body of work gives voice to the experience of midlife identity shifts and the ambiguity of middles. Motherhood subsumes many identities for women, and there comes a time of transition where we can reclaim and rename ourselves as our children get older. Using imagery of water and birth, this work is a way to process that journey through a time of becoming something new in parallel to my children maturing. This diptych project includes a written and audio element as well.

Though personal in nature, the work speaks to very universal experiences of transformation through liminal spaces, of being and becoming, crossing thresholds, of moving through ambiguity toward rediscovery and redefining. Referencing Jungian archetypes it is a journey through life's middle. Given the last couple years, this feeling and experience is one we share deeply.