‘Women Sometimes Go to These Places’

Crinall, Sarah

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-3007-0_4

Sarah Crinall⁵

Part of the book series: Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories ((CGPPMT))

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Abstract

I encounter my (m)other as in m(aternal) other(-nature) during this conversation with my mum. Her words: ooze out of her and squelch around, out from my mother over me, and her mother. Outward over the places that have nurtured us, Gippsland, Somers: both part of my upbringing, both also mother.

This chapter’s title is derived of the title of one of my mum’s (Karen Preston/Crinall ) paintings exhibited in this chapter.

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Notes

1.
‘25 years in a sea garden’ (acrylic on cotton duck, 2006), Karen Preston/Crinall , published with permission.
2.
Bodyplaceblogposts are largely published without editing. See ‘A Note’ section for more information.
3.
The paintings in this bodyplaceblogpost, Excerpt from interview with mum are: a) Women sometimes go to these places (acrylic on cotton duck, 1995); b) Looking out the link room window (acrylic on cotton duck, 1995) artwork and detail; c) 25 years in a sea garden (acrylic on cotton duck, 2006); d) untitled (acrylic on cotton duck, 2005); e) Water shadows (acrylic on cotton duck, 2008–2012); view of Gippsland mountains (acrylic on cotton duck, 2002); g) Guarded Angels in hats at the beach (acrylic on cotton duck, 2011-unfinished, 2015-finished); Mum and Florrie, Dad, Debbie and me (acrylic on cotton duck, 2009). By Karen Preston /Crinall , published with permission.
4.
‘Women sometimes go to these places’ (acrylic on cotton duck, 1995, detail), by Karen Preston /Crinall , published with permission.
5.
The bracketed word is the word I intended.
6.
‘25 years in a sea garden’ (acrylic on cotton duck, 2006), Karen Preston /Crinall , published with permission.
7.
Sketches of embryo in development, Sarah Crinall.
8.
‘Water shadows’ (acrylic on cotton duck, 2008–2012), Karen Preston /Crinall , published with permission.
9.
Photographs in this bodyplaceblogposts, Canoe, are re-enactments of the initial photoshoot of the canoe exhibited in ‘Canoe’. The canoe (various wools, thread and bark, 2011, Sarah Crinall) now lives with mum in Drouin, 2018.
*This artist’s name has been changed at their request.
10.
‘Water shadows’ (acrylic on cotton duck, 2008–2012), Karen Maree Preston /Crinall , published with permission.
11.
Electrons, neither a particle nor a wave, do move about a central nucleus though they do not literally orbit this nucleus. They do not behave in any way we are familiar with. For more information on electron behaviour see Gottlieb and Pfeiffer (2013).
12.
‘Women sometimes go to these places’ (acrylic on cotton duck, 1995, detail), Karen Preston /Crinall , published with permission. The photographs used here were taken in 2009 as well as during a re-enactment in 2018.
13.
I had intended to write the word in brackets.
14.
A nest made with natural and textile materials in 2010, Sarah Crinall.
15.
Naming the World Collective. See With Gratitude for more information.

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Crinall, S. (2019). ‘Women Sometimes Go to These Places’. In: Sustaining Childhood Natures. Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3007-0_4

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Published: 12 January 2019
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