Through video, performance, photography, and text, I explore the complexities and confusions that surround the act of love and the dynamics of vulnerability. What are the areas where our preconceived notions fall short. How do we hold on to beauty amidst fear and failure? My work approaches motherhood from within this framework as I process the ramifications of the transformation into “mother” and the simultaneous shift in her relationship to time and mortality. Ultimately, the work explores the concurrent existence of bliss and fear, birth/life and death, resistance and acquiescence.