63 Objects Taken From My Son’s Mouth (And Other Awesome Artwork)

When Lenka Clayton, a British conceptual artist based in Pittsburgh, had her first child, she found it changed her approach to work. “It still seems to be a commonly held belief that being an engaged mother and serious artist are mutually exclusive endeavors,” she wrote. “I don’t believe or want to perpetrate this.”

So Lenka created a Residency in Motherhood, where she would create art while staying home with her one-year-old son: “For the 227 days of the residency, the fragmented mental focus, exhaustion, nap-length studio time and countless distractions of parenthood as well as the absurd poetry of time spent with a young child will become the artist’s working materials and situation, rather than obstacles to be escaped from.”

Here’s a sampling of the art she made during that time…

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