“House of Cards: Maternal Queens” is about maternal myths in a form that suggests, risk, chance and play, ideas that contradict the psychic and social pressures on mothers to keep it all together. Over the past several years my work has expressed the tensions between my experience of mothering and my expectations of that role. In a range of media, I have engaged, among other things, the politics of intimacy in the mother-child relationship and the conflict between the desire for closeness and the struggle for autonomy that have always been central to my experience as a daughter and as a mother.
