MOTHER OF THE MOTHER AND ALSO THE MOTHER OF THE MOTHER'S MOTHER, AND HER DAUGHTER

Overview

Upon realizing my hatred towards my mother, I felt like shedding tears over this inexcusable self-hatred." In order to express and accept the very intense memory of a deathly-ill mother and a grandmother who spent time on a small island in her youth, Setoguti Miki has crafted dolls out of various foods and put a curse on them. This modern-day Hariti (Buddhist Goddess of maternity) tale, uses a collage of conversations and connects the vivid colors of rotted meat with a world of "better mothers."