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Birth Braid: The Stories

This blog is a collection of stories, secrets, memories, reflections, confessions, questions, poems, thoughts etc. submitted by Birth Braid participants. Participants have the option to share with credit or anonymously. To submit a story please fill out the form below. You are welcome to submit as many entries as you would like. You don’t have to make a braid to share a story. Some entries may be selected to be shared with the braid sculpture when it is publicly exhibited. Stories are presented here without any editing, in exhibitions they may be excerpted.


 

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Birth Braid: The Stories


Shifting identity, changing reality. by jess Ford

May 20, 2023

I used the strip of canvas with a subtle wash of light blue painted as my grounding piece, tethering my postpartum experience to my previous self as an artist and bringing through to my current life as a mother. The blue to represent my postpartum blues, this grieving experience, and also the calmness of being present with my baby. I used an old shirt my baby has grown out of, and wound it around a shirt I've grown out of, to show us growing together. Lastly, I wove in an old burp cloth to remember the raw, fresh early days of postpartum.

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