Nest, Rest, Shadows: Tracing the Echoes of Motherhood
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Nest, Rest, Shadows explores the surreal and embodied dimensions of motherhood and caregiving, translating its unseen experiences into material form through participatory engagement. Exhibited at OCAD University Grad Gallery, Toronto, the project examines caregiving as an imprint—a gesture that lingers beyond the moment of touch, existing between presence and absence, resilience and exhaustion. The work engages with rest as a radical act, challenging the relentless demands of caregiving and reframing maternal experiences as an assertion of agency rather than passive nurturing. Clay, with its capacity to hold traces of touch, serves as both a vessel of memory and an ephemeral archive of care. The recurring motif of the clenched fist embodies both protection and defiance, blurring distinctions between intimacy and isolation, tenderness and endurance. Through audience participation, the work creates a shifting landscape of gestures, each imprint contributing to a shared dialogue on care, loss, and resilience. Nest, Rest, Shadows asserts that caregiving is not only an act of service but a force that transforms space, memory, and identity, imprinting itself on both the body and collective consciousness. Keywords: caregiving, maternal, participatory, rest, memory, resilience, performance
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".