During my studies, I became pregnant, an experience that made it difficult to be fully present within the academy and its expectations of constant availability and production. Yet stopping was never an option. Even when time, energy, and focus were fragmented, my need to make art persisted. Art was not something I could temporarily step away from; it was something I carried with me, alongside motherhood.

This tension became the starting point of my master’s research. I began to question how artistic practice can exist in parallel with caregiving, and how motherhood reshapes time, attention, ambition, and identity. My research focused on the relationship between motherhood and art, asking how I can be an artist and a mother at the same time, not as a problem to be solved, but as a lived reality to be examined, claimed, and reimagined. My practice grows from this intersection, insisting that artistic work does not end where motherhood begins.