“The Parent Store”

2024. Plastic, fabric, cyanotype photography printed on cotton, steel.

On exhibit January 18 - February 15, 2025 at Woman Made Gallery, 1332 S. Halstead Ave., Chicago, IL

Adopted children are often told that their adoptive parents “chose” them. Many of these children, myself included, imagined that this “choosing” took place in some kind of baby store.

This piece offers a parallel narrative in which adoptees, too, chose all four of our parents.

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