Mother May I — Marika Kandelaki

Letting the sounds of the numbers wash

over the letters of her face

When deprived of the numbers

Then returning to the rooms

Approaching the canon she counted back from 100

Silver Mother

Concrete Mother

To the memory of the sea

Blue Mother

Mother is talking

Eka

Seeing blue

White gulp, Blue gulp

Friend red

Tamro

Nino

If woman is a structural category, what does it mean to represent this structure? Is she a place or a space? Does she have walls? Are her orifices windows? How many does she have? Can you walk through her like an arch? Or do you walk over her like an overpass? Is she a structure you want to live in? Or is she a volatile construct covered with a tarp? Does her interior catch crosswinds? Or is she a suffocating space with the windows shut? What kind of rims do her balconies have? Is her facade raw concrete? Or is she finished with limestone and marble? Is there writing on her walls?

Woman is structure, but mother is history.