Editor’s Note

Through the blurred pane of glass, Lisa Sorgini’s photographs capture a world paused. In Behind Glass, the domestic sphere becomes both refuge and prison, a space of tenderness marked by separation. These images, taken during the isolation of the COVID-19 lockdowns, reveal the intimate yet overlooked narratives of motherhood as they unfold behind closed doors and sealed windows.

The mothers here appear suspended, tethered to their children through care, through exhaustion, through love. Their gazes do not meet the viewer directly. Instead, they look inward or toward the children they hold, paint with, nurse, or soothe. Between them and the outside world lies a thin sheet of glass, at once transparent and impermeable.

While these photographs speak to a specific moment in time, they also echo a broader and more enduring truth. The maternal experience, particularly within the modern Western context, often remains unseen, diminished to private rituals carried out in isolation. Sorgini brings these unseen moments forward, offering them to the light with tenderness and clarity.

At The Pasticheur, we are drawn to works that document not only an event but the atmosphere that lingers after it. These images invite us to witness not crisis alone but also care, patience, and the fragile bonds that persist through silence and distance.

In Behind Glass, the unseen becomes visible. What is private becomes quietly monumental.