The day I found out I was pregnant in late 2017, I was also offered a place in the Master of Art Therapy program at Latrobe University. These two undertakings became the centres of my life over the coming year. I was set an assignment to keep a visual journal for the course of the first semester. There was no requirement to show the contents for assessment; we simply had to produce the object of the journal to evidence its existence. In this journal I explored feelings around pregnancy – love, anxiety, abstraction, transformation, connection – and my changing body. This was the only creative output I produced during that time. I continued drawing in this journal until it was full, when my baby daughter was several months old. When I look back through it I find a record of moments, changes, revelations that might otherwise have been forgotten.

This book is a facsimile reproduction of that journal, with an essay by Kate Briggs.

Published by Negative Press in association with Monash University Museum of Art.

Image credits: Andrew Curtis