What Are The Odds, 2023
Around one in six people worldwide face infertility at some point in their lives. Those under 35 going through IVF have a 32% success rate of a live birth.
Yet after four years of being told to relax and that it will happen, I am still childless with a womb on fire and now clinically classed as genetically abnormal. These cyanotype embryos represent our three rounds of IVF and they were not enough. My body rejects what it should naturally do and instead I pay to inject hormones into myself to stimulate an opportunity that might never come.
The embryo prints have been developed in left over medication from each failed treatment. It is a grief that no one talks about which is held in each print as a reminder they didn’t stick around and is a reflection on those times I am still trying to navigate through.
Embryo 1
Embryo 2
Embryo 3
Embryo 4
Embryo 5