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Frozen Within, Frozen Without: The Experience of Viewing Nathalie Djurberg's It's the Mother

In this article, I explore my experience of shifting self-states while viewing Nathalie Djurberg's claymation video, It's the Mother. I also discuss ideas of witnessing, violence, and motherhood while describing how I move from an intellectualized understanding of the brutalizing action at hand to a parallel process of induced blankness.