Kat Howard: Mother centers on two large-scale sculptures that draw on the folk practice of "telling it to the bees" — the tradition of confiding grief and transformation to beehives, understood as liminal vessels between the living and the dead. Handmade from nylon stockings and straw, their mouths dipped in beeswax, the forms evoke the hive through smell as much as sight. Echoing the Willendorf Venus, they suggest bodies, matriarchs, and communities of women — carrying trauma externalized at colossal scale, with the hive's capacity to fracture and regenerate intact.
