Lucy Bohnsack

‘This Work They Call Love’ walks a mile in the shoes of women who take on the job of raising children but are not supplied with the full breadth of resources required. Financial stressors, access to healthcare, and affordable childcare are just a few of the unnecessary roadblocks on the path to raising the next generation in this, ‘The Greatest Country on Earth’. As an exercise, I set out to do my job, to make a photograph, as I would my job as mother, using only the tools at hand and a determination born of necessity. I called upon my local community for volunteers who would sit with me and allow me to witness and photograph them. With digital files in hand but the photo paper being the metaphorical missing resource, I turned to cardboard, plastic bags, scraps of fabric, and a printer not designed to handle any of it. The final product makes visible the hours of work put in to create the finished image; stitched, stapled, pieced, and layered. It memorializes the ingenuity and resilience women employ while fulfilling their work and demand their efforts be seen in the light of day.

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Collaborating Artist Lucy Bohnsack