{"id":23970,"date":"2025-07-15T10:35:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T14:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dvsnightingstg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=23970"},"modified":"2025-07-15T10:36:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T14:36:45","slug":"mymatrescenceproject","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nightingaledvs.com\/mymatrescenceproject\/","title":{"rendered":"MyMatrescenceProject: Using \u201cData-Less\u201d Data Visualisation to Explore My Experience of Motherhood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">I don\u2019t observe, collect, or draw, but the language of data visualisation is still helping me make sense of becoming a mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Before becoming a mother, I had this vague idea that, since I identified as a \u201cdata person,\u201d data would help me parent. As a chronically online millennial, the path to parenthood was paved with content about wake windows, developmental leaps, and tracking apps. After my daughter was born, it turned out this vague idea was both completely wrong, but also completely right in a completely different way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video height=\"720\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1080 \/ 720;\" width=\"1080\" autoplay loop muted src=\"https:\/\/dvsnightingale.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/matrescence-header-loop.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A rough timeline of my first year of motherhood, an extract from the #MyMatrescenceProject&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mymatrescence.datais.blue\/index.html#matrescence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">introductory video<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As I tried to navigate becoming the mother of my newborn baby girl, it turned out that recorded observational data was of almost no use to me, and in many ways actively detrimental to my well being. In her very early days, we meticulously tracked her milk intake and nappy changes as part of our efforts to problem solve our way out of slow weight gain. The creation of that dataset was a factor in a complex constellation of stress and misery. Despite all the helpful apps, collecting this data was frustrating and difficult. I vividly remember crying in frustration at 2 a.m. because the app wasn\u2019t configured to handle the draining \u201cswitch-feeding\u201d breastfeeding strategy I\u2019d been advised to use. I found myself snapping at my husband (many times) because he\u2019d forgotten to log a dirty nappy. Bowel movements had become a metric for success, and if we didn\u2019t write it down, had she even pooed?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course she had. As our tiny baby grew, so did my confidence, and I was able to let go of the tracking apps. This letting go allowed me more space to grow and trust the infinite wealth of qualitative data that I was amassing in my mind, body, and heart. The unrecorded data of my lived experience has turned out to be invaluable in guiding me through this turbulent phase of my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As my daughter got a little older, I found myself starting to yearn for the languages of data visualisation to help me express what I was experiencing. At heart, I see data visualisation as a mechanism for exploring change, contrast, and difference. As a data practitioner, charts are an important part of my sense-making process. My matrescence has been one of the most transformative experiences of my life. It felt completely natural to reach for this toolkit to help me make sense of this profound change; but I wasn\u2019t sure how.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve long admired<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dear-data.com\/theproject\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> <em>Dear Data<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>and the field of autobiographical data visualisations it inspired. I\u2019d previously used an autobiographical data visualisation to help me process<a href=\"https:\/\/deathdotdatapoint.datais.blue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> my grief after my father\u2019s death<\/a>, painstakingly piecing together a dataset of memories and emotions. But in this new context of motherhood, I was deliberately bereft of observational data to work with. I had consciously banned myself from the act of observing and collecting data about the topic I now desperately wanted to explore and understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One morning, as I stood at the stove scrambling eggs for our breakfast, I mused to myself how I\u2019d always hated scrambled eggs but now found myself eating them regularly. I poked the eggs with the spatula and turned them into a bar chart in the frying pan, then took a photograph. I had no way to go back and collect data about how frequently I\u2019d previously eaten scrambled eggs. I had no intention of starting a log of each time I ate them; however, even though I didn\u2019t have a dataset to work from, I\u2019d still been able to create a reasonably accurate visual representation of the change in my scrambled egg consumption over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dvsnightingale.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scrambled-eggs-initial-1024x1024.png?resize=720%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A physical column chart made of scrambled eggs in a frying pan. The chart is titled &quot;My willingness to eat scrambled eggs&quot;. The first column is very small and captioned &quot;before toddler&quot;, and the second column is much larger and captioned &quot;after toddler&quot;.\" class=\"wp-image-23980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scrambled-eggs-initial.png?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scrambled-eggs-initial.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scrambled-eggs-initial.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scrambled-eggs-initial.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scrambled-eggs-initial.png?resize=70%2C70&amp;ssl=1 70w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scrambled-eggs-initial.png?resize=450%2C450&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scrambled-eggs-initial.png?resize=800%2C800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scrambled-eggs-initial.png?resize=48%2C48&amp;ssl=1 48w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scrambled-eggs-initial.png?resize=250%2C250&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scrambled-eggs-initial.png?resize=550%2C550&amp;ssl=1 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scrambled-eggs-initial.png?resize=180%2C180&amp;ssl=1 180w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scrambled-eggs-initial.png?resize=500%2C500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scrambled-eggs-initial.png?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&nbsp;Initial project idea.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dvsnightingale.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scrambled-eggs-final-1024x606.jpg?resize=720%2C426&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Three screenshots from a video shown side by side. The title is &quot;Willingness to eat scrambled eggs&quot;. The first image is  captioned &quot;Before baby&quot; and shows an empty frypan, with the annotation &quot;Nope. No thankyou.&quot; The second is captioned &quot;When baby started solids&quot; and shows a small slice of scrambled egg in the pan, with the annotation &quot;Well, I don't want to waste food...&quot;. The last screenshot is captioned &quot;One year later...&quot; and shows a frypan full of scrambled eggs, with the caption &quot;Mmm, brekky burrito. Don't mind if I do!&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-23979\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scrambled-eggs-final.jpg?resize=1024%2C606&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scrambled-eggs-final.jpg?resize=300%2C178&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scrambled-eggs-final.jpg?resize=768%2C455&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scrambled-eggs-final.jpg?resize=450%2C266&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scrambled-eggs-final.jpg?resize=1351%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1351w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scrambled-eggs-final.jpg?resize=1360%2C805&amp;ssl=1 1360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scrambled-eggs-final.jpg?resize=800%2C474&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scrambled-eggs-final.jpg?resize=250%2C148&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scrambled-eggs-final.jpg?resize=550%2C326&amp;ssl=1 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scrambled-eggs-final.jpg?resize=304%2C180&amp;ssl=1 304w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scrambled-eggs-final.jpg?resize=507%2C300&amp;ssl=1 507w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scrambled-eggs-final.jpg?resize=844%2C500&amp;ssl=1 844w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scrambled-eggs-final.jpg?w=1378&amp;ssl=1 1378w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screenshots from the video of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mymatrescence.datais.blue\/index.html#scrambledeggs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fully realised version<\/a>&nbsp;of this idea.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:33px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Around this time, I also had an opportunity to undertake an individual practice-led research project as part of my master\u2019s program at the Australian National University\u2019s School of Art and Design. I pitched to my supervisor that I wanted to try making \u201cdata-less\u201d data visualisations. My project would be a practical exploration of whether I could use the language of data visualisation to communicate concepts without working from an actualised dataset. My supervisor was enthusiastic about the project, and also pushed me to try expressing myself in the native medium of social media\u2014portrait video. I was way out of my comfort zone, but<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mymatrescence.datais.blue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> #MyMatrescenceProject<\/a> was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I quickly settled into a workflow that involved physically piecing together a \u201csketch\u201d of my concept using paper, yarn, and found objects. My personal creative practice has always revolved around making rather than drawing, so iterating ideas in this way felt both natural and like a way to reconnect with myself. I photographed each element on a desktop studio made from an old photographic enlarger stand and a make-up ring light, which gave me fine control of the photography. Then, each piece went through a digital editing, compositing, and animation workflow using Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, and After Effects. This project has allowed me to use an intuitive visual development approach, rather the procedural programmatic approach to data visualisation design that I use in other contexts. It\u2019s a very different space to play in, but it feels very liberating and I\u2019m having a lot of fun.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dvsnightingale.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/home-studio-768x1024.jpg?resize=720%2C960&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A small work space, showing an enlarger stand with a camera and light mounted on it. The camera faces down towards a piece of cardboard with mounds of washing detergent arranged into a column chart. The camera is attached to a laptop, which shows image capture software with the camera view.\" class=\"wp-image-23973\" style=\"width:auto;height:600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/home-studio-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/home-studio-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/home-studio-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/home-studio-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/home-studio-scaled.jpg?resize=450%2C600&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/home-studio-scaled.jpg?resize=600%2C800&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/home-studio-scaled.jpg?resize=2000%2C2667&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/home-studio-scaled.jpg?resize=1360%2C1813&amp;ssl=1 1360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/home-studio-scaled.jpg?resize=800%2C1067&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/home-studio-scaled.jpg?resize=250%2C333&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/home-studio-scaled.jpg?resize=550%2C733&amp;ssl=1 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/home-studio-scaled.jpg?resize=135%2C180&amp;ssl=1 135w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/home-studio-scaled.jpg?resize=375%2C500&amp;ssl=1 375w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/home-studio-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/home-studio-scaled.jpg?w=1440&amp;ssl=1 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">My desktop studio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:33px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Working in video, I had to develop a sense of timing, which was challenging\u2014particularly trying to get the transitions and reveals just right to land the jokes effectively. I also experimented with typography and explored using different typefaces to play different roles in the visualisations. Adding annotations in a script typeface was a breakthrough moment for the project, allowing me to directly reveal my authorial voice in the work. This voice is often deliberately obscured in data visualisations, but including it here felt critical. It is so important to me that this project shares <em>my<\/em> experience in a way that doesn\u2019t suggest it is <em>the<\/em> experience. The discourse of motherhood is so often judgmental, comparative, and overly populated by the word \u201cshould\u201d and other terms of its ilk. I wanted my project to create moments of connection and reflection, not alienation or shaming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1920\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1080 \/ 1920;\" width=\"1080\" autoplay controls muted src=\"https:\/\/dvsnightingale.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/laundry.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Laundry visualisation.&nbsp;I&#8217;d never washed literally every towel in the house in one day before!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Through a happy accident, I finished the first set of videos and the project showcase website just in time for Australian Mother\u2019s Day. I felt a bit weird and awkward about starting to share the work, which is a mix of joking and irreverent thoughts about parenting, and deeply personal reflections on my anxieties and struggles as a new mother. I started by sharing the project with other mothers that I know, and then more publicly on social media. The response the project has received has been incredibly affirming. It has meant so much to me to hear from people how they connected with the project and what they found meaningful. Many people sent me screenshots of pieces with which they particularly connected, as well as their own comments and stories. A common thread through the responses was how chart forms are a powerful way to encapsulate an idea that can be difficult to express in words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1920\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1080 \/ 1920;\" width=\"1080\" autoplay controls muted src=\"https:\/\/dvsnightingale.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mentalhealth.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An attempt to visualise this complicated relationship. I guess you could call these interdependent variables.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>These \u201cdata-less\u201d data visualisations seem to work, even though the use of quantitative forms for non-quantified data feels like it might be breaking \u201cthe rules.\u201d At the start of the project, I had wrestled with a concern that my experimentation was in some way misappropriation or an illegitimate use of the chart form. Discourse around data literacy frequently calls out the problems with non-existent, faked, or misrepresented data. Is a chart made with what I\u2019m now fondly calling \u201cspontaneous post-hoc data\u201d or \u201cspeculative data\u201d inherently dishonest? Randall Munroe has been comedically employing the chart form for<a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/103\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> nearly two decades<\/a>. <em>Observe, Collect, Draw <\/em>popularised autobiographical or personal data visualisation. Although these are typically predicated on the visualisation of contemporaneously recorded observations,<a href=\"https:\/\/data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> data feminist<\/a> or<a href=\"https:\/\/giorgialupi.com\/data-humanism-my-manifesto-for-a-new-data-wold\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> data humanist<\/a> perspectives explicitly make space for a broader definition of \u201cdata\u201d that embraces the qualitative lived experience I am seeking to express.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mymatrescence.datais.blue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#MyMatresenceProject<\/a> relies heavily on my position as the expert in my own experience to establish the legitimacy of the work. Are these charts accurate? Mostly. Are they mis-leading? Not intentionally. Are they honest? 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