Mother (2025) is a series of cyanotype prints that explore the nipple as a site of care, rupture, and psychic residue. The work reflects on how the maternal body—experienced first through bodily contact—leaves an indelible psychic imprint. Drawing on Carl Jung’s idea that the mother is the infant’s first world and the adult’s last world, the work considers how maternal presence, though nourishing, also holds traces of discomfort and disruption. The nipple, a site of nourishment and excess, becomes a metaphor for the fragile boundary between self and other, care and contamination. The cyanotype process — involving exposure, imprinting, and staining — mirrors this physical and psychic transition. The deep blue tones evoke the ghostly trace of maternal care, while also suggesting the uncomfortable residues of generational trauma. It is as much a body that sustains as one that infiltrates and marks — saturated with the psychic inheritance of those who came before us. Rather than assigning singular responsibility for the inheritance of trauma to the maternal body, this work acknowledges the complex, multifactorial nature of psychic inheritance, where trauma is passed through a web of intergenerational relationships. The maternal body is one of many sites through which this inheritance is experienced, but the transmission of trauma is never confined to one body or one line. In this way, Mother explores the maternal body as a space of leakage, imprint, and transition, where nourishment and rupture coexist. It asks: How do we carry the marks of the bodies that came before us? How do we reconcile how care and contamination shape our physical and psychic lives?