like my mother, maybe I’m just is a 12 x 9 inch watercolor work on found paper by Jennifer Seas, part of her ongoing series exploring maternal language and selfhood. The phrase is fragmented across the page, with each clause oriented in a different direction — visually mirroring the complexity of relational identity and emotional dissonance.

This disjointed composition invites the viewer to turn, reorient, and reread — reinforcing the instability of statements made about (or through) the maternal. Seas uses subtle shifts in scale, direction, and negative space to turn a short phrase into a field of emotional ambiguity. Is it confession, comparison, resignation, or resistance?

Like much of the series, the work’s use of found paper and sparse watercolor marks points to the provisional, fragile, and often cyclical nature of relational knowing.

Unframed. Ships flat. Original work.