LE BÉBÉ | Artist Book Project transcription/tranlation project on hand-drawn notebook paper, 9" x 11.25" x .5", 2010-11 & 2020-5 

Le bébé, is the title of a novella by Marie Darrieusecq. It is a  in the words of Claire Marrone: "semi-autobiographical story of a mother’s first nine months with her newborn son. It also examines...the riveting debate surrounding maternal creativity." 

In 2010, during the first 9 months of our first child's life, we transcribed Darrieusecq's book which has yet to be translated into English. Copying over the book in in a language we didn't understand was more a somatic act of reading and writing than an intellectual one. Like our budding relationship with our child, it unfolded in the pre-symbolic realm. In 2020, after the birth of our second child, we began working on our own translation of the book into English. We still don't understand French.