Click on the pages COLLECTING, WRITING, and DOUBLING in the menu on the left to explore the three layers of my process, including the resulting material and accompanying reflections.
The research question "How can the intersection of motherhood and filmmaking be explored in mixed media film?" asked for the development and articulation of my own artistic methods – moving between different layers of materialising maternal experience through collecting, writing and doubling, in my artistic practice and reflecting upon my processes. This nonlinear three-layer method has gradually been foregrounded as an essential part of my PhD outcome.
Collecting personal and shared experiences helped place individual insights in a broader context. Writing and reflecting on these experiences, often through the lens of others’ voices like Lucy Jones on matrescence, gave them meaning. In this way, autoethnography became central to all levels of my process, shaping both the reflective and the creative development of audiovisual and written investigations.
The evolving artistic research process has introduced maternal doubling paired with a mixed media form, acknowledging the multifaceted nature of motherhood and the tensions between creative and caregiving roles – ultimately aiming to bridge the gap between motherhood and the concept of the double in mixed media film.