Mother Mother Mother

Sculpture, Drawing, Quilts

In The Mother, The Maiden, The Crone, Rebecca Goyette delves into the intergenerational landscape of femininity through a rich interplay of drawing, ceramics, and quilting. Taking inspiration from the archetypal Triple Goddess—a symbol of the cyclical phases of womanhood—Goyette reimagines maternal lineage not as myth alone, but as an intimate, lived experience. Her work resists the commodified, modern interpretations of holistic femininity, instead grounding her narrative in the personal: in caregiving, in memory, and in the evolving relationship between mother and daughter.

At the heart of this project is collaboration. In recent years, Goyette has worked closely with her mother, Louise Goyette, to create quilts that serve not only as artworks but as tactile expressions of comfort and protection. These quilts—lovingly stitched from salvaged fabrics—invoke the long-standing tradition of women transforming scraps into shields. For Goyette, the quilt becomes a vessel of modern alchemy, converting the mundane into the sacred, the discarded into the cherished.

While the quilts provide a direct thread of communication across generations, Goyette’s works on paper and ceramics extend the dialogue into broader cultural and ecological contexts. Her ceramic pieces, often referencing horseback riding as both a symbol of class and a forgotten bond with the natural world, expose the widening gap between modern life and the land. Through this lens, Goyette invites us to reckon with our own disconnection from nature and ancestry, while also offering a path toward reconciliation.

This body of work functions as both personal archive and collective mirror. Through motifs of nurture, decay, transformation, and myth, Goyette challenges us to reframe the maternal not as static role but as a dynamic continuum—one in which the mother, the maiden, and the crone coexist, support, and shape each other across time.