Katie Jacobs

Recent solo exhibition “Vessels for My Homeless Rage” expressed the disconnect between the implicit expectations of nurturing motherhood in contrast to overwhelming, messy emotions experienced while parenting. I am constantly picking up my child’s multiplying toys: blocks, lego bricks, balls, puzzles and plastic beasts. Using a traditional moon jar vessel form as stand-in for the “feminine” body, I distorted and distressed these rounded thrown objects using my son’s toys. By combining impressions of these objects with traditionally “feminine” symbols – the vessel, Korean moon jars, the cauldron and roundness – I investigated aspects of the vulnerability of the body, societal and personal expectations of mothers, and the emotional complexity of parenting.

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