Images of WomenPlaster Caster’s Postpartum BluesHow strongHow infinite — ultimateIt is as if the worldwill explode with imagesof womenHere, now, a time for all thingsa seasonCommon knowledgeCalling for an uncommon insightinsistentSuddenly finished —Installed“The Public is invited”The undertaking of a year,focus for most of the energy,Fulcrum on whichmost ideas turnedSurrogate lovers, childrenand friendsAfter this birthing tooComes postpartum blues —Betty Branch, 1978I awake, there is no urgencyin my risingI try to substitute the urgencyof frying eggs.Guilt gets me up,The staring egg-eyessee through my façade —I am exposed.Do the children miss mein my not-here-ness?Or are they only eating eggs —Bits and Piecesof mebarely clinging togetherflying apart in all directionsclinging like filingsdrawn, back together magneticallyToday I flyToday I fly apartDepartTodayBetty Branch, 1978Betty Branch, 1978Above: Gaia, 2007, bronze, 15” x 43” x 12”, Collection of Susan and Dr. Paul FrantzOpposite: Mothers lll, 1984, bronze, 14” h, Collection of Dotsy Clifton17
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