Before You Were Alive

Illusion Theater
528 Hennepin Avenue Minneapolis

Some years ago I began mothering a little boy who had lost his mother. Both of our lives were dramatically altered. He was hungry for mother love, and I - an up-to-then single artist - inherited a family that both demanded my focus and augmented my life experience in new ways. I began taking notes and recording my unfolding feelings and experiences of being a new, full-time parent riding the wake of a child's loss. Here are some of those experiences.