My Sun
Rebecca Baillie, My Sun
Guided by the Moon
Rebecca Baillie, Guided by the Moon
Abstract
My Sun and Guided by the Moon (2012) show the heavily pregnant artist with her swollen belly covered in gold and silver leaf. The work is suggestive that the connectivity experienced by an expectant mother, extends outwards, even as far as her relationship with the cosmos. The 'sun' portrait was taken on a bright September morning, and its partner image, the following October, on the night of a full moon. Female cycles and the importance of time passing during a pregnancy are referenced. Interestingly, bearing in mind that the artist gave birth to a son in November, creating the 'moon' portrait felt like a familiar, empowering and yet isolated expression of selfhood, whilst the 'sun/son' version exuded the energy of a collaboration, and stimulated feelings of joy, liberation and potentiality. By seeming contradiction, the boy was born on a full moon, exactly a month to the day that Guided by the Moon was taken.
How to Cite
Baillie, R., (2013) “'My Sun' and 'Guided by the Moon'”, Studies in the Maternal 5(2), 1. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/sim.187
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