Nursling 

11 creative works found

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  good
  by Rachel Valley

  From the traveling exhibit Mother.Culture. / Currently showing in Sacramento’s Phantom Gallery through January 2008. / Contact Rachel Valley to make an appointment for a private showing. Mother.Culture Page One point of controversy is natural weaning. In my opinion “cold turkey” does not compute with a child. The World Health Organization recommends breastfeeding two years minimum. The natural weaning age for a human is 2.5 to 7 years. A far cry from the 6 months the western babies typically experience.

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  unsettled
  by Rachel Valley

  From the traveling exhibit Mother.Culture. / Currently showing in Sacramento’s Phantom Gallery through January 2008. / Contact Rachel Valley to make an appointment for a private showing. Mother.Culture Page Today a mother can feel as though she needs to leave the places in public she is patronizing to feel comfortable while nursing. Putting herself and her child in a vulnerable state.

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  support
  by Rachel Valley

  From the traveling exhibit Mother.Culture. / Currently showing in Sacramento’s Phantom Gallery through January 2008. / Contact Rachel Valley to make an appointment for a private showing. Mother.Culture Page _Support in a mother’s immediate family is crucial to success. If one member is not on board the breastfeeding relationship becomes vulnerable. This portrait also touches on the “family bed”. Western Culture has told us that sleeping with our children is bad in every way. I challenge this way of thinking with depicting the family bed as a sanctuary, and to be reassessed by western culture.

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  duality
  by Rachel Valley

  From the traveling exhibit Mother.Culture. / Currently showing in Sacramento’s Phantom Gallery through January 2008. / Contact Rachel Valley to make an appointment for a private showing. Mother.Culture Page Celebrating the roles of the feminine breast co-existing harmoniously, all while maintaining ones own self worth. In my experience balance between these forces keeps all in the picture

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  decency
  by Rachel Valley

  From the traveling exhibit Mother.Culture. / Currently showing in Sacramento’s Phantom Gallery through January 2008. / Contact Rachel Valley to make an appointment for a private showing. Mother.Culture Page This image is just a “fly on the wall” perspective of where a lot of women feel they have to nurse their children, all for the sake of modesty.

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  restitute
  by Rachel Valley

  From the traveling exhibit Mother.Culture. / Currently showing in Sacramento’s Phantom Gallery through January 2008. / Contact Rachel Valley to make an appointment for a private showing. Mother.Culture Page Inspired by a lithograph I saw of an African American slave wet nursing the child of a white slave owner. I wanted to place the mother in the same pose, yet she is reclaiming her breasts by nursing her own child all while maintaining her own estate. I wanted to ask why perhaps black breastfeeding rates are so low in the U.S. Is it possible that resentment toward nursing someone elses children in the past carried forward through the generations?

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  legislation
  by Rachel Valley

  From the traveling exhibit Mother.Culture. / Currently showing in Sacramento’s Phantom Gallery through January 2008. / Contact Rachel Valley to make an appointment for a private showing. Mother.Culture Page Women’s breasts are protected by the law of the land in many countries. It is even legal for a woman to be top free in some states in the U.S. My question is how did something so basic become so complicated it garnered legislation? I appreciate that it is in place regardless.

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  gross
  by Rachel Valley

  From the traveling exhibit Mother.Culture. / Currently showing in Sacramento’s Phantom Gallery through January 2008. / Contact Rachel Valley to make an appointment for a private showing. Mother.Culture Page This work stems from reading blogs and articles surrounding public breastfeeding. I saw great support in the articles and quite the opposite. Men and women describing breastfeeding as “dirty and gross”.

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  refuse
  by Rachel Valley

  From the traveling exhibit Mother.Culture. / Currently showing in Sacramento’s Phantom Gallery through January 2008. / Contact Rachel Valley to make an appointment for a private showing. Mother.Culture Page A breastfeeding mother hiding from the public eye, in conditions that mimic a public toilet. All to spare the feelings of her society.

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  dirty
  by Rachel Valley

  From the traveling exhibit Mother.Culture. / Currently showing in Sacramento’s Phantom Gallery through January 2008. / Contact Rachel Valley to make an appointment for a private showing. Mother.Culture Page This work stems from reading blogs and articles surrounding public breastfeeding. I saw great support in the articles and quite the opposite. Men and women describing breastfeeding as “dirty and gross”.

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  The Nursling Sky
  by Sophie Shapiro

  I am the daughter of earth and water, / And the nursling of the sky; / I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; / I change, but I cannot die. / For after the rain when with never a stain, / The pavilion of heaven is bare, / And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, / Build up the blue dome of air, / I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, / And out of the caverns of rain, / Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, / I arise and unbuild it again. Words By Percy Bysshe Shelley Painting using acrylics, pigment, graphite and gold leaf / 102×42cm Music- Mahler Symphony No. 5 Adagietto