These paintings work to reposition the “rational” (or patriarchal) gaze as one not of possession but care. This work is rooted in the belief that learning how to see and be with others, to hold space and time for unfolding, is a radical reconfiguration of the gaze that puts care at its centre. By actively taking up both subjective positions of mother and painter, my visual research and methodology emphasizes process and material to consider the connections and conflicts between the practice of painting and the care practice of mothering. It contemplates how artwork made from the perspective of a mother might make publicly visible the maintenance and emotional labour of being alongside an other, and posits that painting can become a method of documentation for the mostly invisible parts of carework. The material quality and handling reveals the processes of painting alongside the subject referencing the accumulation of physical touch and mental labour. The paintings invite the viewer to look outward from a practice of care to trouble the boundaries between art and life, public and private, practice and product, and artist and mother.