My great-great grandmother Agnes. Her children and grandchildren remember her as a great cook, an animal whisperer and a great healer. She gave birth to at least 9 children, two pairs of twins at home and never went to a conventional doctor until old age. She was a very strong women, and a very devoted mother and grandmother, a true matriarch.
The Grandmother Project
Welcome. My name is Jess. I am a former portrait photographer, and my new mission in life is to share and illustrate stories, especially for and about women.
I started the grandmother project out of a curiosity of where bad mother’s come from. I have a slew of bad mother’s in my family’s history (both of my biological grandmothers were absent from my life, one riddled with addiction one riddled mental illness and addiction.) This project is my first step in creating a collection of stories about the magic, the pain and the sorrow of being a woman in the role of a mother, aunt, grandmother and/or daughter.
I am also here to share the complexities of the mother/daughter, grandmother/ grandchild relationship, in addition to the relationship of aunt and niece.
Please contact me if you are interested in participating in my current project. I am very excited to announce that this project is partially funded by a mini grant from Arts Alive, the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, and the Eppes-Jefferson Foundation.