I gave birth at the beginning of the pandemic in my 13th floor apartment far away from family. Because of the pandemic I knew that I wasn’t going to have the birth or postpartum support that I had been planning on. I painted these bird birth attendants as a meditation on ways find support 13 floors up at the beginning of a strange new reality for so many people.
Each imagine features a person in birth in a different birthing position, accompanied by a bird. The goal of this project is to create a resource for birthing people to help educate about different birthing positions.
Olivia 2020
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