Abstract
Two women have become mothers. They both make art. They both grew up in a family with a sibling labelled as disabled. Ted, a visual artist, has made photographic and video work about her youngest sister. Marieke, an ethnographic filmmaker, created a short film about her eldest brother which fuelled her PhD about non-normative family lives. Intrigued by motherhood and sisterhood they start writing letters, through which they bring their memories, thoughts, artistic creations into life. This arts-based study is about entangled motherhood—i.e., the entanglement of mother-sister-daughter roles and the intergenerational entanglement of the present, past, and future—in the context of encounters with difference and care. By writing letters as a way of acting on the world and situating themselves within things, they intend to open up new forms of knowledge production, moving away from medicalized and binary ways of studying (growing up in) families with a labelled family member.
Highlights
: Poems, surrounded by space and weighted by silence, break through the noise to present an essence
An ethnographic filmmaker, created a short film about her eldest brother which fuelled her PhD about non-normative family lives
It is connected to the life we are living how we structure it, and how we carry with us our past of having grown up in a family ourselves, our material environment
Summary
: Poems, surrounded by space and weighted by silence, break through the noise to present an essence. We embraced letter writing as a journey during which we dared to be vulnerable, and moved our own conceptualisations around sister-/mother-/daughterhood. Despite my shifted role as a supporter, I do not feel less like a sister to Lode.
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