Ode à Ma Mère (detail), 1995 open edition Despite the harshness they have

Despite the harshness they have endured

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Ode à Ma Mère (detail), 1995 open edition Despite the harshness they haveBourgeois was involved in her familys tapestry restoration business from a young age, when she was tasked with drawing in missing or worn areas of tapestries that needed repair. Her mother Josphine, a skilled weaver, managed the workshop and spent hours in the sun reweaving old textiles. Bourgeois remembered her this way decades later, around the time she began to explore the spider motif. For her, the spider was symbolic of both her mother and of her