Societies without established systems are often, in time, forced to survive by initially sacrificing a woman’s integrity; separating her maternal role from her female sexuality. As stewards of the family hearth, charged with maintaining its cohesion and purity, mothers inhibit their sexual desires, channeling their primal energies into the daily routine of a patriarchal household. This project touches the curtailment of womens’ sensuality, imagination and freedom for the abstraction of a higher good, the family structure becoming just another name for practical unity.

P. S. Personal

My mother often recalled one event. When I was a kid, playing in the park, she was sitting with her girlfriends on the bench. She noticed that a respectable old man sitting on a bench, dressed in a white suit, wearing a white summer hat and glasses, was following me with his eyes. He turnedto my mom and asked her:

— Is he your child? Take a good care of him, he will become an exceptionally talented person.

I remember that my mother was encouraged by that old men words and It was her dream to see her child become a talented person. And now, in retrospect, I can say that her spirit navigated me to the Great Navigation. — Samvel Saghatelian