Jess Baum
Resides in Bristol, England
A Watched Pot, 2021
Collaborative digital film collage using mobile phone footage shot by 30 mothers on their mobile phones during the pandemic.
Jess Baum
Jess Baum is an artist, potter, mother, trainee art psychotherapist, writer, and doula. Her work often comes back to looking at the intersectional experience of girls-women-mothers as containers and vessels. “For ourselves and for others, we are the holders of life and the bearers of death in all their manifestations: from emotional material (anger, blame, shame, guilt, desire, joy, nurture, love) to physical matter (milk, blood, vomit, shit, piss); from reproduction to detachment; and from the microcosm of self-identification through to the macrocosm of global systems. Yet, the very nature of a container is that it is simply an object that can be filled, can overflow, and can be emptied. It has a dual life of capacity and limitation, fragility and strength, and it and/or its contents can be shared, sold, bought, or stolen.”
