Mutterliebe
Motherly love: What does it mean in life with severely mentally disabled children?
Photographer Sebastian Schmidt explored this question in interviews with mothers of adult children with mental disabilities. Excerpts from the interviews are captured on transparent paper through which the illuminated portraits shimmer. The photographs become visible as soon as the transparent papers are lifted. A sound installation involves the children.
https://schmidtsviews.de/projekt/mutterliebe/
Dasein
BEING
We are at the mercy of a nature that is itself.
It does not care about us as individuals,
it does not care about us humans.
It is not at my disposal,
It is beyond the reach of my rationality,
it makes me a speechless part of its aimless presence.
I recognise my existence in a life that is what it is.
Vollmond
Full Moon
In such a night
your silver fish eye stares holes in my soul
Endless crushed feelings fall like icing sugar
silently and gently through the sieve
on the lukewarm dough of the past
And the darkness purrs contentedly
and eats his fill
Jessica Schmidt-Kurschat,
CoroNation: Gedichte in bibolaren Zeiten.
Independently published (22. Februar 2022)
https://schmidtsviews.de/projekt/vollmond/