There have been so many beautiful self portraits this month and this one from 1hotmama is my out and out favourite for this week. I know we’re only supposed to post one image for each challenge, but I think the two versions of this one image complete this story well, so I’m going to bend the rules a little. And besides, how could I choose?
I love the detail of the first, how the experiences of motherhood are mapped on her body.
And then also the soft dreamy quality of this one.
And I think I’m not the only one who would identify with her words when she wrote that she found the nude theme
especially scary for this mom of four who is still learning what beautiful can be. So here I am, stripped of the ticky-tacky trappings we cover our lives in. What does that leave? Just me. Surrounded by love, yet not without scars. Emptied of my womanness, yet full of life.
Yes indeed, beautiful and full of life.
