This project began as a self exploration in being a woman and embarking on the most feminine experience - becoming a mother - and reflecting on the effects it had on me mentally and physically. I began by building an archive of images; looking at the female body from new perspectives, trying to find ways to peel back the layers and shed light on something we rarely if at all get to see.

I decided to pursue using printmaking techniques to express my findings from the research I’d conducted and the memories I held. Building on my archive with drawings, layering images in multiple ways, trying to find what I felt to fall on to the page, hoping my work will connect my stories and feelings with an audience I know hold similar ones within themselves.

I found that this journey, even though it felt isolating, really connected me to other women in a whole new way. No matter where I went I would meet some very beautiful women with similar aches, pains and bothers as me that could sympathise with me in a way that my husband couldn’t. Even though not one woman’s journey was the same we we’re all connected, alone but together, the same yet different, but all together.