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She Holds a Cosmos
Sometimes life and work run parallel in borderline hilarious ways. During the sleepless haze of early motherhood I got the opportunity to illustrate a book of poems about motherhood for Chronicle Books. There’s nothing like being awake at 3am and longing for sleep and using that time to think about how to illustrate a mother longing for sleep. I genuinely cannot really remember doing any of these drawings but it’s one of my favourite projects to date.
![Motherload poem She Holds a Cosmos Cosmos Motherload](https://i0.wp.com/karolinschnoor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Cosmos_Motherload-copy-900x898.jpg)
![A Fable poem She Holds a Cosmos A Fable She Holds a Cosmos](https://i0.wp.com/karolinschnoor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Cosmos_AFable-copy-900x644.jpg)
![Outside the New Body poem Outside the New Body](https://i0.wp.com/karolinschnoor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Cosmos_OutsideTheNewBody-copy-1-scaled-900x666.jpg)
![Heart of a Nation from She Holds a Cosmos Heart of a Nation poem](https://i0.wp.com/karolinschnoor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Cosmos_HeartofaNation-copy-900x900.jpg)
![Horniman Museum poem Horniman Museum](https://i0.wp.com/karolinschnoor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/cosmos_pages-900x900.jpg)
![We Cannot Sleep Alone poem We Cannot Sleep Alone](https://i0.wp.com/karolinschnoor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Cosmos_WeCannotSleepAlone-copy-900x900.jpg)