2. Birth.
With not even a year having passed since their second-born had died, my parents’ fourth was born. Me. Spring had arrived but I was two weeks late, jaundiced and no doubt my family probably still didn’t know up from down. Over the next five years my mum’s friend and artist, Joan Fanning, set a rhythm of bussing to our house once a week in order to draw mother and child. Te Papa has a collection.
https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/719222
https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/41081