The Naming: Pregnancy/Childbirth #2

Nicole Rose Gelormino

Pregnancy/Childbirth #2

2018

oil on canvas panel

6 x 4”

A black or silhouetted tangle of limbs contrasts sharply with a background of soft pink fading to warm white. As I embraced and hung on my sister, husband and doula during contractions, I felt my own body becoming one with theirs.