Spinning Tits

10m x 10m
Ceramic, soil, gold and silver pigment, buffalo milk 2016

This site specific installation was realised on a residency in Naples. Inspired by the phrase “I AM THE MILK OF YOUR BREASTS. YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER FORM OF INFANT NUTRITION IN YOUR HOUSE.” (Rose, 2018, p.85) was used by websites such as Alternamoms, which adhered to the ‘ten commandments’ of the La Leche League founded in 1956 by American mothers. Rana-Allen vouches for this modernity of motherhood through the exhortation that mothers ‘have’ to breastfeed or be deemed to have ‘failed’ as a mother. This mission statement impressed upon Rana-Allen on all three occasions of her motherhood journey from 2001, 2003 and finally 2008.