LouiseBourgeois Maman





Maman






 Just around the corner is 
the enormous room of 
giant spider sculpture.


It's eerie and majestic,
but from the delicate tips of its legs,
you can feel a soft sobbing.


The artist's mother was a seamstress,
always protecting 
the household with thread and needle.


This memory was both a trauma 
and a source of her art.


The relentless toil of spinning thread
without pause,
and the raw, instinctive maternal love 
reflected in it,
are deeply felt.


I realize that 
a mother's presence
is truly this immense.


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