→ “Mama’s girl”
“Me and her”, Ink on Newsprint paper, 100x70, 2022
“Mama’s girl”, Ink on Newsprint paper, 100x70, 2022
“Look at me”, Ink on Newsprint paper, 100x70, 2022
“To girls”, Ink on Newsprint paper, 100x70, 2022
In this series, the artist delves into the dynamic relationship between mother and child, capturing how maternal mirroring—the mother’s perception of her daughter—shapes and reshapes the daughter’s identity. The figures, rendered in soft, burning shades of ink, seem to exist in a space between memory and presence. The first image, with its lone figure, evokes a sense of introspection and solitude, perhaps reflecting the artist's evolving self-identity influenced by her mother’s mirrored view. In the second, the two figures hold hands, suggesting both a connection and a tension. Their forms blur and merge with the background, signifying the way memories of loved ones shift and evolve over time, their impact always felt yet never fully grasped.
The use of minimal contrast and the subtle interplay of light and shadow enhance the ephemeral quality of memory, while the figures’ shapes reflect the deep bond between mother and child, formed and reformed through this subtle, emotional mirroring.