February 2021 – November 2021
View the gallery of transposed stories below
Four Trimester Project: contributions
XR Psychologists took stories about conception, pregnancy and birth and transformed them so that they read as if a new era is being conceived and nurtured, rather than a human baby.
The resulting stories may stir in the reader the possibility of articulating similarly intense emotions about the necessary scaleof change (hope, fear, loss, fragility, joy, possibility) that can often seem impossible to describe and totally overwhelming.
When we can process how we feel,
we can think more clearly about how to act.

Story 001: Fear
‘…I feel sad sometimes to miss out on the joys, tears and tantrums pioneers face in their day to day striving. I also know I could never risk gestating a new world….’

Story 005: Pregnant Pause
‘…A pregnant pause,
a warning to all,
as new futures gestate
in a last ditch play
to rebirth this beauteous globe,
theatre of our dreams.’

Story 006: Stoic Optimism
‘The emerging shift’s entrance to the world; screaming, vulnerable, fighting for life, with a rational need to survive, bringing with it a constant conversation now around saving the planet and stoically looking forward, have given me hope and desperation in equal measure….
May we all be equipped with stoic optimism as we move forward’

Poem 009: The Dance with Hope
‘Then, a few days pass And we tentatively pick up hope’s soft hand again…’

Story 011: Trauma & Separation
‘….I was left, traumatised, isolated, paralysed by fear, on my own…, surrounded by day to day trivialities and others who, in their oblivion, still had their hope and joy intact.’
Story 017: Infertile Landscapes
These pieces conceive of Maternal Space through the convergence of infertility in women and infertility in our ecological environment in the 21st century, drawing on the exploitation of the production of natural resources and the manipulation (albeit willingly) of the female body in relation to (re)production.

Story 020: A Different Kind of Life
‘…despite the logistical challenges of life centred around different values, our new lifestyle quickly became more meaningful, richer and rewarding than life as a pair of carefree hedonists had been. Life had acquired a meaning we had not previously contemplated.’

Story 021: Coming soon (in transposition)
Coming soon

Story 022: …?
Could this be your story…?