Five Stillbirths and Then My Mother
by Kathleen Cecilia Nesbitt
$1,500
Collage/Mixed Media w/acrylic paint, tissue paper, shade samples. Primarily realism this piece depicts my grandmother, circa 1924, against a dogwood tree (the tree that Jesus Christ is said to be nailed to). She had had five miscarages and/or stillbirths before she delivered her first surviving child, my mother.