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Rosengarten
is a collaboration of words, sculpture and visual images, an exploration of the "hidden" implements of medicine that attach to that most robust yet precarious happenstance - birth.

The exhibition and book, by Janice Galloway and Anne Bevan with additional material by Michael Wolchover, was launched on the 31st of January 2004 at the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow.

Then when you are braced,  whether you are braced,  concede. Conceive.
 Admit it. Fall.

 It's the verb we use of  pregnancy, of love. In or out.  Goes either way. One falls.

A wish, a gooseberry bush.
A spill of milk.

This is the business of
The business of

This is the business of life with  death, two balances in precise  relation. This is the business of  drawing air and of drowning  fluids, of slickness and dry  compression. Of making two  from one, of nerves and  channels, down and muscle and  veins. Of dark to light, a  business carried out under the  broil of woollen covers, a  business of touch and steel and  random happenstance.

 There is bleeding of course. And  splitting and aweful surrender.