Reap What You Sow

Lucia Gardiner

Reap What You Sow is an examination of domestic values and expectations. By piecing together symbols that define Gardiner in relation to her upbringing and roots, she highlights her musings and anxieties about motherhood and matriarchy. The trajectory is inevitable, baby heads hanging from the ceiling, an old chair that seats only images on a clothesline and cake - leading up to the horror and playful nostalgia that is Domesticity: tradition, womanhood, self preservation, and consumption. Take a seat - the same one that was passed from your mother, your mother's mother.... What withstands the tests of time?