Unsuitable for Framing explores the impact that societal expectations have on women as they transition into modern-day motherhood.

The series considers how our sense of self can shift and change as we move between social landscapes and how we evolve in an attempt to find comfort and belonging in new spaces.

Reflecting on the adjustments required of women as they traverse between the vibrant and ambitious expectations of young womanhood to the nurturing and selfless expectations of motherhood, I consider how, whilst trying to outwardly present compliance with, and integration of, both these idealised stereotypes, both their shadow sides form. Creating a dark inner landscape that requires attention.

By upholding a romanticised view of motherhood, Society turns a blind eye to the struggles created by impossible to achieve ideals.

The symbolic use of house-plants serve as a metaphor for these societal expectations of motherhood. Nature existing in the domestic setting.

Matrescence is the term used to describe the physical, emotional, hormonal and social transition to becoming a mother.

These images tell one woman's story of the journey into matrescence.