One basic question could be towards who or towards what one can turn to, when one gives birth, gives life, let life come through her or make a clay sculptures. Being invited to this exhibition and thinking with Katie Cuddon is a privilege. It’s to put together my thoughts about mothers and motherhood like a clinician, and also try to put together what I learnt from Katie’s experience. Clay’s is a very sensible material, as I understood, expressing very sensible territories of this monumental momentum of life, which is giving birth. Even in its thalassal phylogenetic dimension, there’s this movement through the female body.

I just got to know in a mail a few days ago that there’s a new issue of Imago. Imago is a revue in Hungarian, issue from the Budapest psychoanalytic school, (which is the revue about Ferenczi) that came out and the title was : What mothers want ? What do mothers desire ? So my work as a clinician, as a peri-natalist has the question what mothers need. They certainly need envelopes, holdings, tranquility and very much presence. What If there is not enough support, when a mother is very alone? can she feel like an orphan, like an organ, like a formless form? Can she feel the distress in her body, can she be forced toward suffering, can she be in some state of row emotions, and even in something very difficult and repulsive.

Or was this her experience as a new-born? Her new arrival as a baby her-self as a mother?