The Earth is Expectant of another day
Ahmad Shamlou

Woman, the essence of life, the heart of nature… is expectant of a new season. A blossom flourishes, announcing the womb of the earth is enceinte. From this fertility the earth’s belly swells and at the time of the bearing, like a spring cutting through mountain rocks, the earth’s womb tears. Lastly comes the painful bearing, and the prize is motherhood.
The mothers of this land are expectant of a new day and a new tomorrow, they hold and carry obstruction and hindrance within them only to birth a new era in the end, albeit painfully, but the grand reward is motherhood; mothering a new age where the mothers are equal to the others.
This series is a record of this endless cycle of pain, tolerance, flourishing, and mothering. Since the formation of the Women’s Organization of Iran in 1958 until today, mothering has been a precarious duty. The pregnant mother’s body swells and alters in anticipation of tomorrow’s blooms, waiting to bear life; though with great agony, the fruit is hope.