“When I was 40, I decided to stop trying to get pregnant. It was a decision that involved redefining my life and what I had pictured for my future. It caused a deep examination of values learnt in a society where everything strongly promotes family life. I started a search to forge my own concept of “successful” life.”

Through the appropriation of texts made by women writers who did not have biological children and through the symbol of nature in its eternal fecundity, this book questions the meaning of “fruit” and the subjectivity of its absence. It evokes ambiguous concepts that relate to motherhood and non-motherhood such as legacy, the feminine and freedom.

The book is composed of 21 pictures, a number related to the uterine cycle and birth control pills. Strong tree trunks, long branches, and dense foliage become the representation of self-growth and expansion, a confrontation through photography of the social connotations of the word “fruitless”. - Adriana Estivill