“Overmother Metanarrative is an amalgamation of ideas with a central theme of Mother as a looming, authority, protective entity. Considerations of stifling overprotectiveness. It evolved from a more general look at family and domesticity and its links to caring through sewing, cooking, safe from harm, patterns, stability, continuity, home. During its evolution and process, I looked at feminist practice, totems, wings, the body, metaphysical links between animals and humans. For the patchwork section, I examined works by artists who use fabrics, and sewing, as well as traditions of patchwork, in particular slave patchwork because of their deep meanings.”