If Ever
For a while I’m wondering if i ever want to be a mother. It is suppose to be obvious, right? especially in Israel, when you are highly encouraged to do so. After my mother passed away in the middle of my third year of college, this question started to burn a bigger hole in head, So I set down and started writing, I came up with 40-ish thoughts and poems. They became 5 books, each one on a different aspect of motherhood: How I see myself, pregnancy and birth, raising children, the society and finally, the process of loosing my mom.
In the Hebrew language we have a lot of expressions about women and family from the botanical world - like “family tree” or “a fruit of the womb”. I found a true connection to this world but I needed to treat it in my way, as I used my own words. So I researched plants, seeds, fruit and more through the filter of the xerox machine. I needed to find a new way to explore and present the obvious and known things - as I would say about motherhood - something to clear for so many, but not for me.
This was my graduation project at Wizo School of Design, Haifa
Guided by Noa Segal and Ada Vardi
In the Hebrew language we have a lot of expressions about women and family from the botanical world - like “family tree” or “a fruit of the womb”. I found a true connection to this world but I needed to treat it in my way, as I used my own words. So I researched plants, seeds, fruit and more through the filter of the xerox machine. I needed to find a new way to explore and present the obvious and known things - as I would say about motherhood - something to clear for so many, but not for me.
This was my graduation project at Wizo School of Design, Haifa
Guided by Noa Segal and Ada Vardi
