I shot this through frosted glass in a hotel room bathroom. I had just got off a plane which tends to make me quite anxious. My journey with photography; specifically self portraits has been a beautiful one. I had a wildly broken relationship with myself and my sensuality. Shooting myself has allowed me to get back in my body after feeling dissociative, appreciate myself in a different light, have beautiful photographs to look back on when I’m older, and has helped to heal my relationship to my body after struggling with certain illnesses in my teens. Photos like these are more than photos to me. They are reminders that you can transmute energy into something positive, that creativity truly can help you heal. I had a photo like this framed above my bed and on a video call once my therapist noticed it, asked if it was my photography and when I said it was, he smiled back at me. He said “wow, I bet that’s extremely healing for you and the women you shoot.” It made me so happy to be seen in that light. That’s how I hope you see these too ✨