The Long, The Lovely Drunkenness employs staged still-life photography to create a new iconography of motherhood while rejecting the ubiquitous visual trope of Madonna and child. The title pays homage to Tillie Olsen’s short story “Tell Me A Riddle”. Rejecting historical platitudes, the project distills the intense, complex, and transformative experience of becoming a mother into a series of “visual haikus” with domestic objects and body fragments.