MamaCasts: Life Casting Boston, USA

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If you’ve ever had a mold taken by me you know how deeply present and intentional I am with the moment of impression. I work to ensure lightless and truth so joy and care are fused into the casting. I am the same in the months, sometimes years, it takes to complete a piece. I will attend a casting deeply then let it rest and wait for it to talk to me. These are legacy pieces made for the heart space of generations to come. This past year I’ve been slower than ever to complete the works I have begun, and have taken no new clients in over 6 months. #longhaulcovid is a fickle thing. My heart has been impacted in a way that I can not bend down (POTS) or exert my self without immediate shortness of breath- and these pieces are heavy to move around. I thank you for being patient and knowing that as long as your piece is in my care, it’s in my CARE. Day by day #thankyouiloveyou

#babyshower for my dear oft collaborator @jenodd -preparing the way and embracing the moment with OMG 😳 😜🥰 #parentlife - I’m making fewer and fewer #bellycasting #portraits & #documentaryphotography these days— so appointments will be rare and more meaningful- so, Book now. Everything in it’s own time. My work is not refined, because I’m here to embrace the uncertainty and the mystery of wild unfolding that is life— that said, we love when elegance and hilarity dance. #mamacasts -

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#internationalbereavedmothersday Healing for the mother’s heart. #childrenhospice. Today is International Bereaved Mothers’ Day. The portraits In this reel is cast from the last days of an 11 year old boy, in hospice home care, with his mother, and older brothers. It was a day of quiet chaos- I’ll never forget. I visited their home with my casting materials and set up in the kitchen while the mother paced and repeated called for her eldest sons to get home immediately from basketball practice , while her youngest sat quietly with an oxygen mask playing a video game alone in the living room. I waited for over an hour, set up and ready, present to the suspended tension in the air. Everything felt rushed. And hushed. The teens burst in jumping and popping off still pumped from practice, and the mom commanded them into the kitchen NOW as her little one put down the video controller and slid quietly to the counter. I didn’t arrange them into a perfect picture. I didn’t pose them in any way. This was to be a “candid casting”. Mom and her three sons threw their hands into the board and wrestled for a minute, slapping hands away, grabbing hands and checking hips. I breathed and waited for an opening and said “now freeze!” And dumped the alginate goo over thier family grasp. No idea what would be revealed (well, some idea). Today, years later, the mother keeps this (and another, made with just she and he after all had quieted, just because) in her office, ever behind her as she works. A place of quiet meaning and solice for her heart. This is how I’m here to serve. Time is now.

29 weeks 🤰🌸💕💃🏽👩🏻‍🌾 — a moment to just sit in silly silence and let the world breeze around - this moment as it is. Messy and cracked and simple. #mothersday @jenodd

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Complete #breasthealth #cancervictor #courage #humor #celebration #fineart #breastcasting #mamacasts #couplegoals #sacredart. If you, or any loved one you know who knows a loved one who might - want to experience a #lifecasting as a sacred art and part of a healing journey through cancer or just, life. DM me for a consult. Last year This beautiful woman came to me the night before an early stage breast cancer lumpectomy— to help her process the enormous emotions she was feeling from the diagnosis. She’s a very private person with very down to earth taste. She’d never thought to do something as bazaar as cast her breasts! But she knew she needed to to embrace her power. Her supportive husband attended the casting. And in this vulnerable, silly, sexy session - they blew off a lot of anxiety, and for the first time in months felt ready to face what ever was needed. This is her one year cancer free anniversary and I’ve finally completed her piece - an artifact of a trying and victorious time.

#internationalwomensday #mamacasts #motherdaughtergoals —it’s nice to parallel play with my mother. For a change. To feel in quiet cahoots and on the same side of a potential. My mom is a musician- a gardener- masterful with textiles and whimsical things … a chaotic perfectionist. we love like battle brats with chewing gum in our hair. It’s been an intense intense life contract. And, God, do I love this woman. I feel like I’m breaking her out of jail when ever I ring her on my way to the studio “mom, I’m headed to Lowell… can you be dressed in 10 minutes”… she squeels (actually Oooohs!) and we disrupt her aging for a few hours to play. It’s really exploitation on my part, she’s so curious and detail oriented to a maddening degree that I’m only made better in my craft through her constant questions. It’s a gift to have this time together. To pour healing into the work, and each other. For real we have driven each other to full scale madness in this life time… and no where has there been such tenderness as infused in our intentions. #takeyourmomtoworkday❤️ #eldercare #healingart

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If I could stop in a moment - give myself a sanctuary to dream into- a Now whose quality I can thread through every conceivable Now- this one would serve eternally. This is the summer of 1992. I am 22. My son is 6 months. There is a harmony in the bond I share with my child that holds the contraction of our inherent mortality, and expansion that unfurls as Life. We are watery creatures, my son and I. We cry when we laugh. Like this moment which holds a sorrow in perfect balance with joy. I’m sentimental about this portrait of this moment. It’s a reason why I press forward to offer and share the art of a moment. I’m driven to create portals in your heart- so when you find yourself in a Now that could use the medicine of liberation, of bliss, of true belonging as only can be felt in the human state of love - I want for you to have a touch stone. Mama said there’d be days like this. There’ll be days like this. #anchorlove