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==Symbiosis: a mother diary== | ==Symbiosis: a mother diary== | ||
In collaboration with | In collaboration with [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Being_a_Unicellular_Organism/Carolina_Fernandes_Garcia_Pinto Carolina] | ||
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_Symbiosis: a mother diary_ documents the experience and thoughts of two young women and their slime mold child. The diary documents the growth of Vina Garcia Morais, the slime mold we | _Symbiosis: a mother diary_ documents the experience and thoughts of two young women and their slime mold child. The diary documents the growth of Vina Garcia Morais, the slime mold we gave birth to, and reflect about this “caring system” that is always expected on us (women). We sign the "family contract" to care, feed, protect and love, putting our efforts to keep them alive and support them in their own journeys. | ||
Being regularly questioned by our families about our plans to have children, specially because our ovules are in their "healthiest phase" at this age we're in, we never know if our ability to take care is something natural of our personalities or if it was imposed on us so we could be better mothers. Considering the diary as a literature genre that gives place to a regular input of honest confessions, we see this medium as an appropriate way to share our thoughts letting it clear that every statement there is profoundly personal and "unfinished". | Being regularly questioned by our families about our plans to have children, specially because our ovules are in their "healthiest phase" at this age we're in, we never know if our ability to take care is something natural of our personalities or if it was imposed on us so we could be better mothers. Considering the diary as a literature genre that gives place to a regular input of honest confessions, we see this medium as an appropriate way to share our thoughts letting it clear that every statement there is profoundly personal and "unfinished". | ||
===The diary=== | |||
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For the full-size pdf, see [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eNFpqSji-8KtDh7gUdgLfYGUsjSz5xGa/view?usp=sharing Symbiosis] | |||
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The diary contains a mixture of Viviane's photographs and Carolina's drawings, both being our point of view about our baby's growth. The journaling experience takes place in a period of one week, being this week what we could call the childhood of the slime mold and the moment where we're having our first steps as mothers. During this time we share our duties so each day one of us is responsible for feeding, observing from time to time, documenting and giving attention in general to our blob. | The diary contains a mixture of Viviane's photographs and Carolina's drawings, both being our point of view about our baby's growth. The journaling experience takes place in a period of one week, being this week what we could call the childhood of the slime mold and the moment where we're having our first steps as mothers. During this time we share our duties so each day one of us is responsible for feeding, observing from time to time, documenting and giving attention in general to our blob. | ||
Within the imagetic documentation, we write down our thoughts and feelings while taking care of Vina. | Within the imagetic documentation, we write down our thoughts and feelings while taking care of Vina. | ||
==References== | ==References== |