Psychoanalysis and Breast Milk at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
By Allison Vanouse. By the end of her presentation, Patty Chang had two small bottles of milk. She poured the contents into a tea bowl dating from the Song Dynasty, of the twelfth or thirteenth century, with an impression of a leaf seared into the bottom by the laying on of an actual leaf before the glazing process. It was a proto-photographic impression: there in this ancient bowl was a leaf's color, its perfect sha…