This project positions my daughter as a lens through which I examine my personal anxieties about being a mother in an unstable situation. My husband and I are both artists from different cultural backgrounds and so far we have raised our small children on 3 different continents, amidst financial insecurity, emotional upheavals, changing social environments, and the restrictions that came along with the Covid pandemic.
My daughter spent the first 4 years of her life in Israel, where she felt most at home - even now, she considers herself to be ‘from’ Israel, although neither my husband nor I have any roots there. At age 4, we relocated to Poland, my native country, which proved a difficult social transition for her. Recently, we have relocated to the United States, my husband’s home country. She is only 7, but has already experienced many life changes.
Currently, we live on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. A number of these photographs are of my father-in-law’s property, where we lived when we first arrived, surrounded by broken boats and the equipment of fisherman. We live near the ocean, and the landscape here, marked by the rhythms of water and nature, echo the ebbing and flowing of our life, which seems fixed in a cycle of constant transition and change.
