Concept: The heaviness of being a mother. It is difficult on the body, the mind, and the spirit. The crow which is marked on the chest is the sign of death. Death becomes a part of your life, and you fear it if only for the fact that you do not want to leave this child alone in the world.The beeswax has a motherly smell and globs on the cast with the white paraffin like the breast milk that feeds the life you brought into the world. The branches connect from past to the future.