Drawing of an empty Physalis pod (Pen and ink on card)
The adoptee doesn’t have a choice so they have to find a voice…
‘Talking Over You’
There are so many facets and emotions I can relate to as an adoptee and it is difficult to keep a tight focus. At the time of my adoption in the late 1950s there was no legal requirement for the birth parents to provide the adoptive parents family health records. This can cause the adoptee complications which have the potential to be serious. It also means that the child has no history, their lives are a mystery and even a puzzle with missing pieces.
I am experimenting with the puzzle idea by using letters between my birth mother and myself cut into puzzle pieces.
