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.
OK, OK, I know it’s not still Friday but I looked at this picture and I immediately understood. It’s an absurdity so constant in my own life that I don’t even see it any more (except maybe when I visit the stash backup storage in the laundry). Everyone I’ve ever met who sews or knits or does some other material based craft will have a stash. We like to look at it, add to it, re-arrange it and sometimes even cull it, or give some away. Most importantly we like to have the stash there so we can make what we make with it, when the idea and the material come together. But like Rebekah says, sometimes it feels absurd to have more than one could use in the span of their days.
fabric, by Rebekah of Sunnybrook Farm Designs. Go and have a look at the beautiful things she makes with it. Maybe the stash isn’t so absurd after all.
My out and out favourite for this week, beautiful and spooky. I love how the lights from the camera look a little science fiction and yet the rest of the portrait appears almost like a painting.
Hello everyone, I’m Janet and I’ll be posting my Friday favourites in the fourth week of each challenge. I live in Melbourne, Australia and I’ve been writing my blog, muppinstuff for a year and a bit. Originally I joined SPC because I was taking lots of family photos but disliked and resisted being photographed myself. So I dared myself, “go on put yourself in front of the camera every week, stop being such a wimp….” It’s a good thing to be present in your own history, I think.
These days I don’t always have the time to post a portrait every week and some challenges inspire me more than others, but the presence of a challenge in itself makes me see the world in different and sometimes unexpected ways. I like that. And I really, really enjoy seeing the images and reading the stories people in this wonderful SPC community bring to each challenge.
