Mierle Laderman Ukeles, care work, time impoverishment & Sustaining Your Life as an Artist

"In such erasure lies joy." —Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Certain artists’ lives and work recur in writing by women approaching or in the thick of motherhood. Paula Modersohn-Becker, Louise Bourgeois, Alice Neel, Mierle Laderman Ukeles. I approach these subjects with trepidation. Why must I, too, amble down such well-trodden territory?

My answers to myself are thus:

To some these names are new / There’s no “new”…