she is willing -- to rethinking [sic] production and reproduction in such a way that the material and the immaterial, the personal and the objective. . . The work of the female artist is to go beyond 'work' as we currently understand it -- the double-burden of which has characterized the lives of women for a very long time -- to use artistic practice to rethink the notion of practice'. So whatever you are doing, it is work, but it is also art. Your child is art, your raising of it contains the opportunity for your most artful intervention in the universe. But the child is also anti-art, absorbing bodily and emotional attention that could be attuned to the turn of a phrase, the interpretation of a concept, the drawing of a scene. Art-making is the declaration that you exist as a subject, and not as the object of someone else's art. Does it make a difference that you are one kind of productive subject as a parent and another as a writer? Step 7: Bake a cake? Wash the floor? Your house contains a kitchen and a studio. Knitting, sewing, baking and other domestic activities are not always visible or valorized -- but they are also, fundamentally creative work. We can distinguish them from the other, endlessly repetitive tasks of housekeeping and childrearing, the diaper-changing, laundering, tidying and cleaning that constitute perhaps UN-productive maintenance work. The work of domestic creativity is now considered an aesthetic and artistic practice in