Top: Spatial Concept (rotated 90º), Lucio Fontana. Bottom: My incision on my son's first birthday.
2017
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Top: Baby's head in my bowl of cereal. Bottom: Van Gogh's Back, Mona Hatoum
2017
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Top: The first lock cut from my son's hair. Bottom: Cradle, Janine Antoni.
2017
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Left: Night Sky, Vija Celmins. Right, Baby's hand, spit up.
2017
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Left: Barbizon, Helen Frankenthaler. Right: The consequences of not wearing a bra
2017
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Left: White Brushstroke I, Roy Lichtenstein. Right: Black beans for dinner
2017
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Left: Asleep, about to wake up. Right: Raise Up, Hank Willis Thomas
2018
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Top: Galvanized Steel, Donald Judd. Bottom: A week's worth of folded laundry
2018
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Left: SP I-SPXII, Josef Albers. Right: Nursery school washcloth duty
2018
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Left: One Minute Sculpture, Erwin Wurm. Right: Nap-long sculpture (placed by my son on his own head before falling asleep)
2018
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Left: The boy with a sweatshirt on his head. Right: The Girl With a Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer
2019
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Top: Blue Planet Sky, James Turrell. Bottom: Family afternoon on the deck with coffee table
2017
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Top: Our toilet, illuminated by some contraption so we can see it in the dark, purchased by my husband on Amazon. Bottom: Roden Crater, James Turrell
2018
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Top: Thread trimmings in the studio. Bottom: Luminance, Terry Winters
2017
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Top: What my vacuum collected today. Bottom: Stormy Wreck, J.M.W. Turner
2017
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Top: Christmas Card, Kiki Smith. Bottom: Floor nap
2019
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Top: It was only a matter of time. Bottom: The Matter of Time, Richard Serra
2018
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Top: Kid, Elizabeth Murray. Bottom: Kid's dishes
2017
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Top: Chicken taco remnants in the sink. Bottom: Coin, Dana Schutz
2017
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Left: Olympia, Mel Ramos. Right: Aftermath of the beach
2019
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Top: A freshly folded basket of laundry. Bottom: Alchemy, Jackson Pollock
2018
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Left: First day without nursing since becoming a mother. Right: Self Portrait/Nursing, Catherine Opie
2018
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Left: Joan Mitchell, 1961. Right: My son, 2017.
2017
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Left: What I feel like. Right: What I wish I felt like (Blue Poles, Marilyn Minter)
2017
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Left: Shinola, Marilyn Minter. Right: Milk Mustache I
2019
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Left: Satiated, Marilyn Minter. Right: Milk Mustache II
2019
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Top: Suffolk Bunny, Sarah Lucas. Bottom: Baby legs
2017
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Left: Dinner in tights. Right: Trademarks, Vito Acconci
2017
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Top: Cloud Gate, Anish Kapoor. Bottom: Napping
2019
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Top: Levitated Mass, Michael Heizer. Bottom: Non-levitated mass, 4:15 a.m., my bed, my pillow
2019
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Left: Toys on the kitchen floor. Right: Taut Line, Wassily Kandinsky
2017
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Left: The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, Damien Hirst. Right: The physical impossibility of getting some sleep around here
2018
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Top: Before. (Long Haired Cheese, Robert Gober). Bottom: After, eyebrow grooming
2018
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Top: Where's my kid... Bottom:...In Nick Cave's Soundsuit
2019
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Left: Negroni and Milk. Right: Mother and Child, Mary Cassatt
2019
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Left: Beam Drop, Chris Burden. Right: Fry Dip, my son
2018
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Top: On the Town, Cecily Brown. Bottom: Crabs for dinner
2017
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Top: Maple bacon for breakfast. Bottom: Song, John McCracken
2017
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Left: Untitled VW, Lynda Benglis. Right: Pancake breakfast
2018
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Left: Little angel. Right: Barberini Faun
2018
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Left: I Am Making Art, John Baldessari. Right: Accidentally making art (after Baldessari) on the kitchen floor
2017
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Statement

Created during my Artist Residency in Motherhood, these digital collages pair snapshots of my day with screenshots of existing artworks. Made in seconds on my cell phone during moments of everyday life and parenting, they helped me center my caregiving as a studio practice in and of itself, as opposed to viewing motherhood as an obstacle to artmaking. Contextualizing these banal moments in my life as a mother with more significant works of art by prominent artists convinced me that my labor outside of the studio mattered as much as it did in the studio. By merely associating my daily messes and experiences with more well-known works of art, I hoped to elevate my day-to-day life from the meaningless to the meaningful.


They live permanently on my Instagram feed.

© Jessica Wohl