Crawford, PaulaIrvin, Sarah2016-06-302021-04-27https://hdl.handle.net/1920/10276This thesis has been embargoed for 5 years and will not be available until April 2021.My thesis is a selection of actions, objects, and texts made as a response to my experience of pregnancy, giving birth, and caring for my daughter. The actions themselves were time-based performance pieces derived from every day routines of caretaking. This document contains images of my thesis exhibition, A Bringing Forth, depicting the drawings, sculptures, and video made in conjunction with, and as a response to, this lived experience. An annotated prose poem accompanies the images and functions as another descriptive system of the work.enMotherhoodVisual artParenthoodDrawingSculptureCaretakingThesis