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Love Must Be Reinvented; a prompt artist Margaret Morgan adopted from Godard’s film, Pierrot le Fou, in which the protagonist recites the poet Rimbaud whose invocation of “love reinvented” was set against bourgeois society’s hetero norms of marriage and family. For Morgan, well aware of the women’s varied roles, such a directive works within motherhood, not against it. Morgan states,

Domesticity and mothering are nothing if not creative—improvisational, performative, durational, an assemblage that can transform broken things into treasures: mothering knows how to make do. ‘Mothering’ is a …