MAN - A brand new mother artist (PG rating)

BEFORE: 

"I feel very much like I am calmly walking towards an abyss of sorts, into the dark indeed.

I have so loved the MAN festival these people's work/life and the day-to-day accumulations. 

Oh it starts to make sense, I start to see a way". Alexandra Harrison.

8 months pregnant

Last week

Kicking, belly down

(me in the pool,

the it in me)

Waiting for the introduction

For a sign, for a ray

Meanwhile,

A choreography of meltdowns

And small revivals

Yesterday I was ready

Today I am begging for time

This build-up is not curated

Oh there is a date

But give or take

Or give and take

Yet? They ask me

Yet?

Anticipation is pressure

And the artist is worried

The artist is lost

Or,

The artist is gardener

The artist is cook

The artist creates order

The artist cleans and cleans and cleans

The artist is still, sometimes,

Backyard dancer

And the artist falls apart

The artist does not know

How to keep every moment holy

Nor leap fences like she used to

The artist is barely a lover

The artist is not a mother

Yet

(Before the 23^rd of December)

Alex working on her artist's response for the Child Artist Response Project that will feature alongside the provocations of Ruby, age 12 in the pages of Issue 4, Into The dark. 

AFTER: 
Rainer Mallee  - born 23rd December 2012, named on Christmas day.

"A manchild, long and lovely, 55cm, and 4.1kg. These numbers seem important and make the eyebrows of the midwives shoot up. All's well, we're out of hiding, but going slow". 

Newborn 

Rainer in his BIG designed romper for Mini And Maximus taking in the fans at the National Dance Forum!