Maria Magdalena Campos Pons

It is meant to make you pause, make you feel something, make you think, but not to be a literal representation.

So for example, I'm looking at this gorgeous work, a triptych by Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, that comes before an essay called Second Spring, which is about a woman, who would be me, thinking about the body at midlife and the changes it goes through.

And this work of Campos-Pons' has an elderly woman on one side and a younger woman on the other side, I think you would read it as mother and grown daughter, with a kind of woven thread between them.

And I thought, you know, that's an interesting meditation as we go into that chapter.