Are You My Mother? examines the intersection of loss, media influence, and the weight of unexpected responsibility. In this reimagining of a classical mother-and-child sculpture, Hannah replaces the mother’s head with a vintage television set, its screen displaying a pixelated sailboat… a deeply personal nod to the childhood memories she holds of sailing with her family before her mother’s death.

As the eldest daughter in a family of seven, Hannah was thrust into a maternal role for her three youngest siblings. In the absence of a mother to guide her, she turned to media for depictions of motherhood, only to find herself inundated with portrayals that failed to reflect the reality of what she had lost. The television, then, becomes both a vessel of longing and a symbol of disconnect… an endless loop of ideals and expectations that felt foreign to her lived experience.

Beneath the figures, a worn, empty couch evokes both comfort and vacancy, a relic of the domestic space where family bonds are nurtured but also where absences are most deeply felt. The title, borrowed from the classic children’s book by P.D. Eastman, speaks to a desperate search for something familiar, a guide, a reflection of what was lost… but finding only distorted echoes in return.

In Are You My Mother?, Hannah invites viewers to sit with the complexities of grief, identity, and the impossible task of filling a void that was never meant to be hers to fill.