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Under your own microscope
Conceptualizing this project as ‘identity work’ is just one way of sharing a narrative, an interpretation, my experience, of knowing and participating in this process of growth and personal evolution.
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Identity work in a complex world
The wisdom of the ages and the passion that drives creation, the forces that will help us shape a better world. ~ Simone B’Free
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Allowing for emergence and embracing one’s own complexity
Something I have observed about my experience of sovereignty is that the feeling of it comes and goes.
As if my conditioning were a landslide of mud and debris, I become entangled and triggered, scrabbling and alert, lashing out and fighting back at everything coming in my direction.
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Embrace
The freedom of authenticity, of stepping into your true self, comes from embracing the paradox of being both courageous and vulnerable.
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Flowing: momentum and the present moment.
I have been sitting with my own patterns, the ebbs and flows, the ups and downs. I realise I experience suffering when not in flow. When my motivation and energy and focus are not aligned, I become anxious and at times, depressed.
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Being (Album #3)
These images reflect the emerging sense of liberation and my growing comfort with showing up as myself. They reflect the confidence that comes form the strength built on loving your self, mind, body and soul. They reflect an increasing irreverence for social norms and the expectations placed on me by colonialist paternalism. In light and shadow, I experimented with balance and boundaries.
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Album #2 – Transcending
“In these moments of deep reflection, I started to make sense of my self, for myself. ” This album reflects the realization that I could use my body to express myself through images, and that nudity enhanced or expanded what i could say…
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The Photographic Journey to here
“To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself” ~ Simone de Beauvoir. I started looking for myself in places where I knew I’d seen me before. I thought perhaps there would be clues left behind, or perhaps I’d get lucky and find I was still there. In yoga. I saw my shape, my body, the crafting of age telling a story of it’s own. In the garden I saw the crone, smiling as she welcomed me home. The witch standing close behind, ever sultry and full of sass…
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Being shot by an other
The next set of photos I share (next post) will be those I very first shared online with a community of naturists (and some others…). As I share the various albums I have created for this project, I will toggle back and forth between reflection on now and then. I will share where I was at in my journey when the photo was taken, what I saw in the image at the time, and if anything has changed. As well, I will check in regularly with a mindful pause, an update of where things are at with the project real time and a few new pics as the opportunities to collaborate with more experienced artists emerge and unf
Simone B'Free
One woman's journey to radical freedom
