by samantha foster
Ink on watercolour paper
h: 29 w: 29 d: 1 (cms).
What a Mother Keeps is an intimate drypoint that explores memory, inheritance and the fragile persistence of care. The image depicts a christening dress suspended against an empty ground, its small scale and intricate surface drawing attention to the labour of both making and remembering. The dress belonged to a friend whose mother was living with dementia and had recently passed away. The garment became more than an object of clothing: it became a vessel for memory, carrying traces of maternal love, ritual, and continuity even as personal history was slipping away. I was drawn to the christening dress because of the emotional weight ordinary domestic objects can accumulate over time. Clothing absorbs touch, gesture, and presence. A christening gown marks a beginning and is often kept carefully for decades, handed down to new generations. Through the slow, tactile language of drypoint, What a Mother Keeps becomes both a portrait of absence and a quiet act of preservation.
£275 (As exhibited.)
£175
(Unframed print.)
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