10
Months consists of photographs taken by the artist of her body
during pregnancy, arranged in ten 'lunar' months of 28 days,
and accompanying texts from her journal entries for the same
period. The sentimentality associated with images of pregnancy
is set tartly on edge by the scrutiny of the woman/artist who
is acted upon, but who also acts: who enjoys a precarious status
as both the subject and the object of her work. ("She
is the content of a mania she can observe.") ... The
echoes of landscape, the allusions to ripeness and fulfillment,
are refused by the anxieties of the text, and by the methodical
process of representation. The conflict between a need to speak,
and the difficulty of speaking, is exacerbated at this moment
when the self is 'engrossed' and identity peculiarly uncertain.
("She now understands that it is perfectly possible
to forget who one has been and what one has accomplished.")
