‘I became a mother’ is a personal journey into a universal female experience of metamorphosis, evolution, and recovery.
Photographing her daughter became the only opportunity for a creative output after Poiša became a parent in early 2022. These photographs transcended the immediate function of the family album revealing lesser-known sides of mothering.
This work reconsiders the conventional representation the mother, reframing birth, and motherhood as a journey down the mythical well as part of a feminine initiation.