To/From Mothering Alphabet project is two-fold. One to present a new alphabet, made up of 26 symbols correlating to 26 mothering sounds from labor. Each symbol would be installed in an intimate nook around the city of Portland. A correlating map would be handed out for pedestrians to walk the city as a journey down the birth canal, along the way experiencing sounds of natural labor.
The choice for particular sounds of mother in labor are; to bring the intimate space of birth into a public setting, to have a woman’s experience be heard/have a platform and to invent a new language using maternal sounds as a basis of communication. At the end of the journey the public/participant will have the option to project/exhale/moan/shout/cry their sound upon an open public space, perhaps over the Willamette River. Their sound will be recorded, continuing to build on this language.
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