Vignettes of the modern woman

ARTIST Serine Kwak de Labaume still remembers how she felt while organising the FreshAir Fine Arts Festival in November last year. Arranging daily artist talks and evening concerts was a tiring and stressful affair, leaving her with just three or four hours of sleep a night for a month, she says.

And if that wasn't overwhelming enough, she had to deal with snide remarks from people who labelled her a bad mother for spending her time working instead of taking care of her two daughters.

Says the 42-year-old: "I felt sad and hurt, and I wondered why so much was asked of me. And what is asked of tod…