Curds Away!

Pictures made from milk, using a 19th Century process it seems. Ah, such quirkiness to be had in the Land of Lacto! Check out Denise Ferris's art here.

Milk Jewels

from http://www.news.com.au:

IF you thought mother's milk was just for babies, you're wrong - a group of artists has turned human milk into pieces of jewellery.

The Telegraph.co.uk reports Duende, a collective of French artists, will display pendants, necklaces and other ornaments made either partly or wholly from human milk in France later this year.

The milk is boiled with vinegar and the protein in it hardens to create a plastic that can be moulded and decorated.

Amongst the pieces to be featured in the exhibition, which will open at the La Cuisine gallery in Negrepelisse on September 13, will be a necklace with a pendant of a baby's head made from the human milk.

Non-Maternal Writers Of 'The Maternal'

Yes, I know I haven't posted here in a long time- too busy writing up the tome!

Was wondering recently if anyone knows any people writing on maternity, and/ or lactation, that is NOT a mother or parent. Obviously I write about breast milk without ever having spawned, and I have a Northern friend who is childless and writing poetry about maternal sexuality, and another non-breeding mate here in WA looking and reproductive technologies and such for her MA... all of us dykes, or thereabouts. Sans infant, and in most cases not desiring one. Just curious.