Some Hero Moms

The Madonna of Mercy. A protective mother image, holding inside her cloak all her "children".

This is an image from a book called Meeting God. It is a photograph of a mother painting while HOLDING HER CHILD! (I have a few pieces-in-process, made while holding and feeding my sleeping child - inspired by this- Thank you Deb!)

Following is another image, not the famous photograph, from a series of photos taken in the 1930s by Dorothea Lange. This is a Migrant Mother, feeding her child while she works. The second career, Mother, so entrenched with life. Seamless. I sought after these models of mothers. This is yet another image I collected of these Divine and Pedestrian mothers being Mothers while performing rituals of life and sustaining life on all levels.