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Hi everyone and happy new year.

Hi everyone and happy new year. I wanted to start this episode with a little bit of

context. For the next few weeks I'll be releasing old episodes that pertain

specifically to motherhood because I myself just had a new baby and so it's kind of the head space I'm in

Plus I'm technically on maternity leave until the beginning of March

This episode Mary Kelly's postpartum document, was originally released in February 2021,

when I was in a very different place than I am today.

I wasn't yet pregnant with my second child and I was on the outside looking in at an experience that I'm actually right smack in the middle of right now and so it's kind of a trip to listen to it again.

But this episode is also very much about the pandemic, which has also

gone through its own evolution in the last year, bringing us back, at least today as I record this, to a place that doesn't feel emotionally all that different

from a year ago, even though we've come so far.

But today it's still a strange untethered endless lonely winter.

Tomorrow, like all mothers know and comfort ourselves with, it will be something else.

So please, today, stay safe out there, and I'll see you on the other side.

This is the Lonely Pallet, the podcast that returns art history to the masses one object at a time.

I'm Tamara Vichai. Oh yes it was very funny in the paper. It said they had a picture of me. I don't know how they got it.

And under it it said it's art because I say so.

Because there was the, you know, the problem for perhaps some of the critics were involved in conceptual art at the time as they say well

you know I like that theory that structure but why do you have to have that stuff in

there and on the other hand the women would say, I can relate to that, but what do you have to? Why the theory? Why that? So it seemed to, in a sense, be three interlocking circles, you know, one where you would have a

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