In approximate order:   I`M A MOTHER   I´M A WOMAN, I´M A WIFE,  I´M AN ARTIST

I MOTHERHOOD

Motherhood is a prerequisite for the continuation of life. Each of us has come here through Mother. Mother is the gateway, giving birth to new life and enabling the flow of new ideas into the world. Each child brings with them a new IDEA of the world.

The relationship between mother and newborn is based on non-verbal communication guided by senses and intuition. Mother knows instinctively what the baby needs. Mother senses the desires of the child.

Motherhood concerns fundamental aspects such as survival and the maintenance of life. The mother's most important task is keeping the children alive - sustaining life.

The paradox of motherhood: In giving birth to new life, one also summons death. Birth and death go hand in hand in motherhood.

Motherhood is ruled by two opposing forces: love and fear. Love for one's children also generates fear that the child will not survive in the world and will die. That's why a mother does everything to prevent this from happening. Keeping the children alive is a creative endeavor in itself.

The experiences of motherhood generate knowledge about the world that cannot be attained in any other way.

II ART

-Art is the purpose of life. -There is freedom in art. -The act of creating and presenting art is an act of love. -Art in itself is meaningful. -Art is the "depiction" of life. -The entire universe fits into art. -Art and play are one and the same.

The making of art is humanity's original way of being in the world and understanding the world.

III CREATIVITY

Creativity is feminine. The most extreme and at the same time the most concrete act of creativity is giving birth. The opposite of giving birth is destruction and killing.

Creativity is part of the cycle of life and a life-sustaining force. Creativity is the active experience of life in all its forms. Art is one way of expressing creativity and art reflects the world. Making art, like giving birth, is bringing new IDEAS into the world.

A) Motherhood and Creativity

Motherhood and creativity naturally go hand in hand. Sustaining and maintaining life requires creativity. Understanding the world requires art.

Creative motherhood is a natural state based on non-verbal multisensory communication between mother, child, and the world.

The artistmother embodies many significant levels: primitive senses, creativity, sensitivity, the need to preserve and protect life, nurturing and care, as well as love, all of which are part of creative consciousness.

B) Motherhood and Artistry

Motherhood and artistry are inherently nourishing to each other, but in our society, they are pitted against each other. Throughout history, women have had to choose between family and work. The profession of an artist has also been considered unsuitable for women. Balancing family and work has been made difficult. Motherhood and artistry contain a structural contradiction that puts the artistically working mother at a disadvantage in society.

The situation is difficult because a woman who has just become a mother is often most creative, as the need for self-expression is naturally great when a mother navigates her new identity. In a family with children, many everyday solutions and parenting responsibilities require real creativity and the ability to solve difficult situations. This requires both sensitivity and intuition, both of which are the artist's most important tools.

Creative and artistic mothers too often have to fight to achieve their freedom and their right to work as artists professionally. The mother artist encounters in her life constantly such barriers that overcoming them requires inhuman forces.

IV DOMESTIC WORK AND MAINTENANCE

A good life requires a lot of work. Maintenance takes up most of a person's functional time. Maintenance is often invisible and only noticed when lacking.

Maintenance tasks within the home include, for example, housework, childcare, pet care, gardening, as well as various maintenance and repair tasks. Maintenance also includes relationships and caring for others, as well as one's own well-being such as hobbies, exercise, learning new skills and maintaining them, researching, reading, and studying, among others.

The artist's profession involves an endless amount of maintenance tasks before the artist can get to the actual making of art. Maintenance is thus an essential part of creative work as well.

The distribution of maintenance tasks in society and at home is unfair and burdens mothers in particular. Women still account for the majority of maintenance work both within the home and elsewhere. Many maintenance jobs are also less valued even though without their existence, life would be destroyed at an accelerating pace, food and clean water would run out, people and animals would fall ill and die unnecessarily, and we would all drown in ALL THE SHIT.

Therefore: -Maintenance of life is everyone's responsibility -Good Life is a basic human right for all -Art is part of a Good Life -Creativity is a necessity for life

The life of the mother artist brings together the meaning of maintenance, creativity, art, and care in a very multi-layered and concrete way. Motherhood is a fundamental maintenance task, part of which is creativity and should be valued as such!