I tried to include the least graphic photos possible, however considering that we are talking about a human organ, use discretion if you have a super weak stomach.
As you probably know, I don't like to waste. Anything. So when our midwife asked what we wanted to do with Natalia's placenta, I was taken aback. I didn't know, but I knew I wanted to do "something". So I kept it frozen for 4 months, until I finally decided to turn it into art before burying it in the ground.
We hired
a lady, Carmen, to make artistic "placenta prints" using Natalia's placenta.
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| Our placenta prints artist, Carmen. |
Below are photos of the process.
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| Arranging the placenta. |
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| Painting the placenta. |
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| Placenta painted and ready for prints. |
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| Taking the placenta prints. |
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| Blowdrying the ink. |
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| Our artist also outlined several prints, making them pop visually. |
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| For now, we are displaying a couple of the prints like this. |
We ended up with 9 prints, two done "in blood" (the original), three done in water colors, and four done in black ink. We think that the ones above look very much like flowers, don't you agree?
Once we had our placenta prints, we still had the placenta! So we decided to bury it so that, as Oscar put it so poetically, "it can continue to give life to something else".
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| Oscar emptying the placenta into the pot. |
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| Natalia posing with her very special palm, nourished now by her womb buddy, the placenta. |
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