Maternitat is a contemporary textile art tapestry in jute and hemp. It stands as a maternal symbol and a promise of regeneration — the return to the womb of the earth marks, like every death, the prelude to a new birth.
In the symbolism “the mother is the security of shelter, warmth, tenderness and food; it is also, on the contrary, the risk of oppression due to the narrowness of the environment and suffocation due to an excessive prolongation of the role of nurse and guide ”( Chevalier )
Pregnancy is such a personal experience that it cannot be described in words. We could express some sensations and emotions but never explain all the commotion that leads to another life within you.
The magnitude is excessive, much has been written, much has been told but when it comes to you, there is nothing outside that places you in such a dimension.
For me, the dimension overflowed space and time, each intrauterine movement, each spasm, each fatigue; craving, crying, expectation, each laugh and each kilo were the paroxysm of love.
The idea of being consumed from within and giving myself fully to such a banquet accompanied me at all times. Maintain iron and calcium levels for the consumption of two, monitor sugar levels and be aware of the behavior of my leukocytes and platelets as well as my protein and hormone levels.
All voluntarily. Many times wanting to run out of the current state of the obstetric slaughterhouse but with the paralysis that uncertainty gave me.
Maternitat — contemporary textile art tapestry and maternal symbol
But not only fetuses eat from the mother, they say that the brain of a pregnant woman radically changes its composition, strengthening certain functions such as empathy or anticipating possible threats from the environment, they call it adaptive pruning.
Why do humans continue to gestate and give birth to creatures that they do not want and do not know how to care for and love? This adaptive pruning does not seem to be powerful enough to control the birth rate and that together we provide well-being, security and happiness to the new generations.
Maternitat tapestry maternal symbol and promise of regeneration. Life and death are correlative. To be born is to come out of the mother’s womb; to die is to return to earth.
Shares jute with its counterpart the TERRA Tapestry
MATERNITAT — one-of-a-kind contemporary textile art tapestry, available at Malimbus Studio
