A City of Ladies

No mother can be all things to a child. When that child grows up wanting to be an artist, she may need creative mothers to help her along the way. Sometimes those mothers are people she meets in real life, and sometimes they are women she knows only through their biographies, letters, diaries, and creative work.

I investigate how 10 of my chosen mothers have guided my thinking about issues I has faced as woman and as an artist, among them friendships with other women, relationships with men, the decision whether or not to have children, how to live a creative life, the purpose of life, and growing older.