Bookmarks for mothers who had babies during lockdown

I created  a series of bookmarks that were distributed through the Child and Maternal Health Service, as part of my Artists Residence for my local council,  Moreland City Council, during the Melbourne Covid-19 lockdown. These bookmarks were designed as a gift and momento for mothers of new babies born during the pandemic.

The bookmarks feature historic photos of mothers and babies from around 100 years ago, who went through the Spanish Flu pandemic, and a short poem: the sun moves/small changes/pull us through/our turn in time.

Feature image: One of the bookmark images, hand tinted photographic image based on Woman Kissing Her Baby, William Charles Brooker c. 1925 State Library of South Australia 

Box of bookmarks being delivered to the maternal and child health service for giving out to mothers