Work, the servitude of the victims of the Mother and Baby Homes and the Magdalene laundries in Ireland where unmarried mothers were incarcerated for the duration of their pregnancies and often longer, is a central theme of the work as is erasure, concealment, the hidden and forgotten and the intergenerational impact of this silence and concealment.
In this part of the project Oona is focusing on cyanotype as a means to explore the consequences of silence and erasure pertaining to the Magdalen Laundries and the Mother and Baby. Drawings become negatives that are exposed to light, it is only by bringing them into the light that an image is realised.
