Uninterrupted, I Can Give Birth Over and Over and Over Again, Albany Museum, Albany, Georgia, 2020-2021
Gay’s giant mural, titled Uninterrupted, I Can Give Birth Over and Over and Over Again, is a giant Rorschach Test with repeated images of a woman, evoking thoughts of reproduction and repetition. The piece is a statement about creation and time, and the ability to give birth. “I’m interested in old world, antiquated thought processes. I borrowed from the indigenous mindset of ‘all are thou,’ meaning animals and women are just as holy as men, and the thought process that creation can repeat itself over and over again, that we’re constantly in a process of giving birth and time is continuing and circular.” Gay said she related those ideas “through the Rorschach Test in which you may see things that someone else may not see. The way black women have been perceived through mainstream media, I’m looking for ways to create counter narratives to that.
