Little Sack of Sugar

2002-2003, collagraph and acrylic on paper

After my first child was born we listened repeatedly to the album “Songs to Grow On for Mother and Child” by Woody Guthrie. The songs echo the cadence and repetition adults use when talking with babies.

I related to the playful nature of these songs, even as I was aware of the chaos and uncertainty of being a new parent. In these four collagraphs, I juxtaposed Guthrie’s lighthearted words from “Little Sugar (Little Saka Sugar)” with expressions of my loving but sometimes difficult experience of early parenthood.