Before I came into the world I was in my mother's womb in this house".
In dream symbolism, houses are wombs, and this house feels like safe harbor.
There is a relationship between the foetus and the housing womb.
If we're pro-life, we need to try and provide children a life worth living once they exit the womb, with education, housing, health care and nurturing relationships.
Her efforts to explore the metaphorical connection between the notions of "home" and "motherhood" (i.e. the house as womb, as a refuge of safety and comfort) feel vague and pretentious, as do her attempts to explicate the metaphor of the "house as body" or container for the soul.
The title of this story, Atria, refers to its many chambers: the womb, the heart, the town, the house, the family.
What is our identity when we become intrinsically connected to this Other that sets up house in our uterus, drains us of nutrients, kicks, causes vomiting and acid reflux, and sometimes dies in the womb and starts to rot?
Those who seek wisdom and self-knowledge rise slowly through many life times travelling in different wombs of animals, plants and humans into house of pious or prosperous or house of yogis thereby working towards final salvation and freedom from the cycle of repeated births and deaths.
The documentary Google Baby, transmitted on Channel 4 earlier this year features a clinic and "surrogacy house" in India, the "rent-a-womb capital of the world".
The Steppenwolf Theatre feels like a womb.
