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.