3m 46s

3/4″ Umatic

‘When my son was only a few months old, I recorded a 4 minute sequence of me trying to dress him while he howled his ritual protest. The post-card theme allowed me to explain the situation in a despairing message to my mother. The constant crying of an infant is experienced as an assault on what is left of one’s sanity after months of sleep deprivation and the nagging  of post-partum aches and pains. Add poverty and three other kids and you get a sample of what drives many women to valium and violence.’ – Catherine Elwes, 1986