3 Phases of Jenni
I made a thing. It's been a long time since I made a thing. I feel pretty good about it. I was inspired by the symbol of the Triple Goddess , representing the phases of maiden, mother, and crone. As I enter my crone phase, I'm summoning the wisdom and perspectives of my two previous phases. The maiden image, in the top left, is a photo of me at 14 years old. I was out with friends in Harvard Square dancing to street musicians and feeling free. This was before my first depressive episode. I was an earnest young person, optimistic, and really rather obtuse to how painful and constricted my life could become. The mother image, in the center of the piece, is a selfie of me and my son when he was four years old. We're in the car heading home from our first trip to the pumpkin patch. Becoming a mother was a difficult transition for me. He came at a time when I thought my life was finally going to be my own, again. I was planning for a career that would draw on my creativity and...
