The Idea Behind It
At the begging of this art piece I wanted to show the criticism on women for getting Cesarean section. I came across this documentary by the New York Times title "Is it selfish to care about your body?" In it they talk about the body and what a pregnancy really dose to you and how after birth your just left with this thing that doesn't even look like the you you've known your life. There was something so incredible about that documentary and the things that these women talk about and how they viewed there body was just unbeliever that women after birth would view themselves is these ways. After watching this I fell into this whole of videos, books, and talking to mothers and what I found was women who had to have a Cesarean section felt almost as though they were lesser because of it. The whole idea that if you don't push the baby out of your vagina then you didn't really give birth. When I found out about this I wanted to make a piece of art about it and try and shade light on to this thing issues that others needed to know about.