Some of us rage. Some of us weep. Some make ourselves small. Some go blank. Some wonder if we will ever recognize ourselves again.

I write and make art about Motherhood as an institution: the invisible systems that run underneath it, the way time comes apart inside it, the vigilance it asks of a body and what that vigilance costs over years, the self that gets reshaped by care until it no longer resembles what it was.

The years behind that question have been deliberate. I trained under Dr. Sophie Brock and hold her Motherhood Studies Practitioner Certification. Separately, I completed the Certificate Program in Social Emotional Arts through UCLArts and Healing. The Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture selected that work as one of three exemplary sessions for a countywide showcase in the field. For the last several years I have studied craft and poetry under my own writing mentor. I created an original curriculum and framework for writing circles for mothers and have led those circles for over three years.

Proof of Life is where all of it converges: essays on care, on Motherhood, and on what we are forced to hold.