Title
The Trade Unspoken
Series
Medium
Generated diptych printed on textured cotton rag. Digitally composited from separate renderings, then hand-finished with oil pastel and graphite smudging to emphasize imbalance. Includes faint transfer markings of children’s fingerprints on the father’s side — preserved as found.
Themes
Role Reversal, Domestic Asymmetry, Parenthood, Unnamed Agreements, Sole Carry, What Mothers Do
She left.
He stayed.
The burden changed hands — quietly, permanently.
If the inversion feels absurd,
what does that say about the roles we never questioned?
Yet in the quiet, someone still had to explain why mum was gone.
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