I was heading to junior high school one day when my maternal instincts suddenly kicked in. After being held hostage to those urges for a decade, I started to wonder if this feeling was really about motherliness. Virgin birth, genes, pregnancy… I journey through 10 years in search of the maternal. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Graduate Work 2021 by Shiika Okada, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation