For my interview with Susan Breen on the Mother Musing Blog: 

"It (motherhood) has changed my work tremendously. I am more fearless, and I think that the work has gotten stronger. Becoming a mother blows your heart wide open, it turns up the volume on all of your emotions and insights. Before I gave birth, I was making really personal work, practicing a kind of radical vulnerability as defiant act. I thought I was digging very deeply and being extremely brave. When I became pregnant, I realized that, previously, I had only been scratching the surface… nothing makes you more vulnerable than having a child, and I think that this rawness is entering my work. The first time I saw her wiggling on the sonogram, I suddenly had the sensation of having lived in a pitch-black room for all of my life, and opening the door to a light so bright that I felt certain it would kill me. Because my child is a daughter, the experience of parenthood has also made me a stronger feminist, which will soon manifest itself more extensively in my work...

Any woman who continues to make art while attending to the tasks of motherhood is a hero of epic proportions. Everything is already set up to marginalize women in the art world… add a child to the mix, and staying in the game becomes a superhuman feat. While art historians have always studied and noted the influence of travel, friends, and milieus on the work of male artists, the most profound and life-altering experience of all has been ignored in these discussions of creative inspiration, because it is an exclusively female phenomenon. Motherhood pushes your body to its visceral limits. It connects you to the earth, gives you a newfound understanding of the circle of life and death and other living beings, and gives you access to superhuman reserves of courage, empathy, and endurance. It turns up the volume, intensifying everything, and this heightened awareness can make you a much MORE powerful artist than you ever were before. It’s time that curators, critics, and collectors recognize the vast, untapped potential of art that represents one of our most powerful and essential experiences as human beings."