As a creative mother, respectfully, you’re missing the point. The life I birthed is the most important creative piece I’ll ever work on. It’s not the kind of creativity that heals or soothes, it’s the agonizing kind that leaves you changed completely. I’ll struggle to form and carve it daily, but in the end, I’ll see only a few fingerprints left in the glaze. But that creation of life and the potential to carry on with more creation of life long after I’m gone is the point.
I do understand that—the creation that creates after you’re gone and maybe creates new life that does the same and continues a long thread. But I also know personally it would destroy me.
As a creative mother, respectfully, you’re missing the point. The life I birthed is the most important creative piece I’ll ever work on. It’s not the kind of creativity that heals or soothes, it’s the agonizing kind that leaves you changed completely. I’ll struggle to form and carve it daily, but in the end, I’ll see only a few fingerprints left in the glaze. But that creation of life and the potential to carry on with more creation of life long after I’m gone is the point.
I do understand that—the creation that creates after you’re gone and maybe creates new life that does the same and continues a long thread. But I also know personally it would destroy me.