Soñar Madre (Mothers Dreams)


  • Photographer
    Kerry Payne Stailey + Natalie Grono
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    Various
  • Technical Info
    Collaboration / Layered
Story

Soñar Madre (Mothers Dreams) is a body of work produced by two friends separated by 30,000 miles and by the hands dealt to them in their dreams to become mothers.

Natalie, mother to two beautiful daughters.

Kerry, who learned motherhood is an impossible dream.

The images blended show the menstrual blood that defies one, every twenty-eighth day, in a bloody emotional battle of hope and loss; and the children, birthed in water, raised by the sea, that delight and inspire the other, day after day after day.

ARTISTS STATEMENTS:
NATALIE:
Long ago you were a dream.
I awoke
instinctively,
in a storming pool of blood,
yours and mine.
We were born, reborn,
You, to this world.
Me, as mother.

The flesh of my flesh. The breath of my breath. The dream of my dream.

KERRY:
Long ago you were not a dream.
I was not called to be a mother
all the years I might have been.
Then there was him,
our longing was born,
but nothing more.
Calendars turn, battle of wills
forgive me, love
this body has won.

So quietly we grieve
the babies I bleed.

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