MOTHER HERE I COME

Katrien Franken's series of three portraits, is capturing women in the final days of pregnancy. Each woman stands behind a transparent cloth, with a carefully cut-out space where the unborn child resides, a void that becomes a vessel for invisible life.

The mother watches over her baby by positioning herself directly behind this space, symbolizing both protection and anticipation, as life prepares to emerge.​ It also shows the mystery of woman; to be able to fertilize naturally and to transform physically - to eventually give birth so that the natural process can be completed and the baby can begin to breathe on its own.

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Mother, Here I Come explores an abstract universal, earthly wonder, poetic and intense with its own language that relies on the visible and invisible.