Cradle to
Hold Me
Cradle to Hold Me considers Black motherhood as a site of love, vulnerability, memory and generational continuity.
Developed over a period of two years, the series emerged from conversations surrounding pregnancy, parenthood and the experiences of Black mothers navigating maternal healthcare.
Rather than centre those experiences through trauma alone, Bing turns toward tenderness and presence. The mother becomes both individual and continuum — carrying histories behind her while holding the possibility of what comes next.
The portraits are held within a visual language connecting motherhood to ancestry, memory and the continuous movement of life.
The Circle
Circular forms recur throughout the series, connecting the maternal figure to continuity, lineage and the movement between generations.
Adinkra
Adinkra symbols surround and accompany the figures, drawing on a West African visual language associated with knowledge, values and lived experience.
Motherhood
The maternal figure is presented not as an abstraction, but as a person carrying her own history, agency and interior life.
Legacy
Across the body of work, looking backward and forward become inseparable — ancestry and possibility existing within the same frame.
The series in context.
To be held is also to inherit — memory, history and love moving from one generation into the hands of the next.