Milk Teeth

As a child, the artist would hear a term and not understand what was being said. How, for example, did one get “milk teeth”? Teeth meant it was time to stop nursing, she knew. She envisioned them as breasts, producing fountains of milk.

“Visual echoes of the lactating fountains with multiple breasts at the Villa d’Este outside of Rome in Tivoli, Coit’s witty sketches translate the imagination of a child—after all, to a child what are milk teeth?—into a logical, if bawdy solution, once again unafraid to face an erotic if playful fantasy, head on.” - Jennie Hirsh, from “Before and After Language: The Art of Madelin Coit”