ABSTRACT
This writing is offered as a reflection upon performance strategies developed to navigate the process of multiple miscarriages across a variety of medical interventions. Either in advance of clinical interventions, left in recovery suites, or while waiting for various drugs to take effect, she began sketching a variety of medical objects around her. These actions, the marking of paper with crude representations of medical ephemera, were not centred on the creation of images; rather the act itself, the moving of pen across paper, was most significant: an outcome of embodied actions. The images of medical equipment were created cocoon-like beneath the sheets of hospital beds and far outweigh the representations themselves. Their meaning lies not in what is represented, rather that they were generated by her body, in that space, in that moment. As such, they function as documents of sited action, emotionally freighted with locations and events that outstrip any possible singular meaning.
