"Mother" is a statement on the unseen and undervalued labor of motherhood.
Spanning diverse locations, this ongoing body of work exposes the realities of maternal experience, challenging the cultural silence surrounding postpartum life.

Lisa’s own transition into motherhood served as the catalyst for this project. Like countless women before her, she encountered a system that prioritizes the baby’s well-being while reducing the mother to a vessel—expected to endure profound physical and emotional changes with little societal recognition or structural support. The maternal body, revered in theory, is too often dismissed in practice.

Across the world, maternal care remains primarily medicalized and impersonal, focusing on clinical outcomes rather than holistic well-being.
Conversations around motherhood frequently centre on sacrifice, reinforcing a patriarchal expectation that women should silently bear the weight of caregiving.

The lack of realistic, diverse portrayals of postpartum life only exacerbates this issue, perpetuating unattainable ideals that isolate mothers and fuel guilt, anxiety, and self-doubt.

Motherhood is both radical and relentless. It is an unpaid, undervalued form of labour that sustains societies, yet policies and cultural frameworks continue to ignore its challenges.

To recognise the full reality of motherhood is to demand systemic change—better support structures, more inclusive representations, and a rejection of the myth that maternal suffering is inevitable. Until these truths are acknowledged, motherhood will remain an individual struggle rather than a collective responsibility.