Motherhood Art

How do you draw a woman who is carrying everything and somehow still standing tall? That was the question circling my mind when I started this piece. I didn’t want to sketch perfection, because perfection isn’t the truth of motherhood.…

“Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” Yesterday my mom texted me a photo from when I was three years old, asleep in her arms. Even through a phone screen, more than two decades…

“She held the universe in her womb and taught the stars how to shine.” A mother cradles a glowing star child inside a perfect circle of light, and the whole world seems to quiet down around them. Last month, while…

And maybe that’s the part we don’t say out loud often enough — how a single drawing can hold an entire relationship inside it. Black mom and daughter art keeps tugging at me for exactly that reason, and it has…