The self-portrait series Annonciation by Elina Brotherus documenting her IVF journey at the Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood exhibition at the Millennium Gallery was the piece that touched me the most, bringing me to tears as I reflected on my own grief relating to my miscarriage this past summer. While my journey was different from that of Brotherus's, the hope and plans, the imagining of a child and thinking of their life, learning, and growth and the involuntary thwarting of those dreams, leaving you feeling most impotent, mirrored my experience of loss of something real yet, invisible or not quite there, at its most acute.
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