“Blessings” is the title of a  project I conducted between the year 2010 and 2017.  It is composed of three parts, and each part employs a different medium; the first being a series of etching, the second an installation of silk-screened patterns on paper, and an the third an artist book.

The abstract-scapes are visual metaphors that reflects my inner landscape as I was going through pregnancy, giving birth to, and raising an infant.

The key word is a tension—both lived and visually represented—that is best explained in a form of a question: :

Is it the same or different creative energy that enables me to do “mothering” and “art making?” How much does a woman have to lose to be a mother? Can I be a successful artist and a mother?

The tensions-questions then were translated into a visual tension animated by colors and movement of shapes.

Blessings III is a collection of artworks and poems. The six titles of poems represent the phases or stages of  an emotional transformation. The images corresponding to twelve months of the year are rendered in an elemental language of repeating motifs and colour.

7 Copies were created by hands of KimyiBo in 2017.

12 images were made with copper plates using etching and aquatint, and printed on Hahnemühle 300g. The original plate measures 101⁄2 inches by 12 inches.

6 poems were handwritten and printed by silkscreen on antique paper found in wooden drawers at l’Atelier GE Gravure.