This piece was inspired by a Greenlandic folk-tale Kakuarshuk which tells the story of women having to dig deep in the frozen earth to find their offsprings. They would claw their way with bare hands through the ground to find girls closer to the surface, but boys were buried much deeper and would take a lot more work to get to. Thus, strong women had many children and lazy ones had few or no children at all.

making of Untitled (fetus), Hidden Place 2009

view the finished animation here