MOMMY IS MAD!!!

Stephanie Davidson’s drawings document her experience of working from home with children.

She wrote:

For the first time since I had my kids, I can’t separate work and home life. No school, no daycare, no home office, not even a desk. Everything is mixed up and intertwined in the messiest way. For the first few months, I felt like a three-headed monster: one kid balanced on my shoulder, the other on my hip. Days were full of Zoom, emails, forts, food, fights, and the cat getting out. When I started to vacuum, the kids would yell “MOMMY IS MAD!!!” and rush to their rooms. Six months later, there’s a strange equilibrium.

These drawings were made to try to both express and reconcile the demands on caretakers like me, working-at-home. Daily situations can be absurd, painful, surreal, annoying, and lovely.