Knowing our mothers

In ‘some things in the belly’, artists try to understand mothers beyond their roles, through letters, films, poetry, and installations.

I remember looking at my mother’s pictures from her college days in an old 90s-style album in Dharan. In one photograph, she is surrounded by a group of girls in Biratnagar, all wearing kurtha surwals in the same shade of blue. She has a soft smile, and her youthful face looks almost too delicate. Whenever I see these photographs of my mother, captured in a life I never knew, I feel an unease that I can’t quite comprehend.