When I became a mother in 2019, I photographed my child while also beginning to turn the camera on myself in a way that I hadn't explored before. Shortly after childbirth I had a Multiple Sclerosis flare that impacted the strength and motor control of my upper body. At that time I began to document my daughter and myself in order to see the two of us more clearly beyond the physical and emotional challenges of those early days of caretaking. The process of making self-portraiture has continued beyond that difficult period and has become an expanding archive; a nearly daily practice that includes tableaus with my daughter Anita, my mother, my partner, and myself alone. As a chronically ill person I have often looked to document the world close to me in order to visualize and contemplate the speculative and erratic nature of my illness, it's unknown causes, methods of medical intervention I undergo to relax symptoms, and the toll all of this takes on those I love. In parenthood my curiosity and concern has expanded as I now wonder about matrilineal inheritance, something that is difficult to anticipate, articulate, or explain in words, or pictures, alone.