Drawings from the newborn : poems and drawings of infants in crisis / by Heather Spears.

"During the night when the ward is most silent you will often find artist Heather Spears among the incubators, sitting beside a baby who for the moment has inspired her by its way of lying, moving, watching or other special behaviour. She reproduces the babies on paper just as they are, unsentimentally, describing them as individuals and personalities. Her drawings give the impression that if you were to meet these small human beings as grown-ups, you would find in them these same traits and behaviour. Throughout history, people have always sought to express and interpret their humanity by making images of people - drawings, paintings, sculpture. With Heather Spears, a previously inaccessible and unobserved phase of human life has been added to the world of art."--From back cover.