Kim

A hand-signed black and white portrait from The Menopause Effect: An Appalachian Unmasking, Anna Mullins' ongoing series photographing women across Appalachia as they move through one of life's biggest changes. Each portrait is shown alongside the woman's own words.

My mom, my aunt, my grandma, they just didn't talk about it. With my daughter, it'll be completely different. We talk about everything, completely open about everything. There's nothing that we don't talk about. You know, she's only 11, but things happen with her body. I won't tell her she is fine or ignore it, or make it so she can't ask me. She can come to me and say, What is this? And she has. And I would never, ever, ever keep her from that.

In Appalachia we don't talk about it, and we don't teach it. This generation of women going through menopause are changing that.

Kim Clark

• Title: Kim
• Artist: Anna Mullins
• Series: The Menopause Effect: An Appalachian Unmasking
• Medium: Black and white photograph, hand-signed
• Print size: 11 x 14 in.
• Framed size: 16.5 x 19.5 in.
• Framing: Black wood frame under glass, acid-free black core mat, acid-free foam core backboard. Ready to hang.
• Ships from: Formato Fine Arts, Wytheville, VA (available for gallery pickup)

About the artist: Anna Mullins is a photographer documenting women in perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause across Appalachia. Her ongoing project, The Menopause Effect, is powered by Patchwork Kinfolx and is, in her words, judgment free, gender affirming, and Appalachian rooted.