mother

'what images keep you company in the space where you work?'
Sophie Calle: 'In my studio there is a stuffed giraffe that I bought when my mother died, to replace her. Her name is Monique too, and she looks at me from on high with sadness and irony, just like my mother did.'....'I don't think my mother would have chosen to return as a stuffed giraffe in the studio of her daughter, but she is dead.'
via arts counselling