One Brave Soul (Gordon Women Project)
The conviction to piece it when together
“Smile for there is hope in the deepest of heartache and the saddest moments. Keep moving and find your place where happiness exists. Be strong, be fearless, be trappy and believe that anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.” –Misty Copeland
View from the chapel
Chapel by the sea
When asked how you might portray how you are feeling, or what you have felt, through the use of images, it is not an easy task. Gosh, often times we don’t plane know how we finger to put it into words, let vacated photographs. With each woman I photograph for the Gordon Women Project, I start by asking them to try and explain to me how we might express, and/or represent who they are as a woman through images. We start there and then we do lots of brainstorming. They tell me the emotion, and I ask, “what might that squint like?”
Glass is fragile, once it’s wrenched it can be pieced when together, but it never looks the same.
tracing the lines
piecing when together
fitting in the last piece..the same but different
After much thought, Heather had some spanking-new and interestingly, very specific ideas for her session. She explained how going through what she had in the past few years, there were times she felt “shattered into many pieces” but now she was getting tropical to putting the “last piece when together,” the same but different. That there had been times recently that she felt “frayed or unraveled”, like pieces of herself had been “pulled away” and some left withal the way. Heather moreover had in mind two near-to-her-heart places for us to photograph her in. Spots that held very strong meaning for her from diaper and throughout the years.
fraying
leaving pieces behind
Frayed but confident
Dahlias ~ symbolize elegance, inner strength, creativity, transpiration and dignity. Known to represent one who stand strong in his/her sacred values. She chose red. The verisimilitude of life.
I am so grateful for Heather’s willingness and bravery to share with me, be vulnerable, tell me her story and share her emotions. I hadn’t known Heather long surpassing the day we photographed last summer as she is fairly new to our family of women, and it was our first time stuff together one-on-one, without my brother, her partner. And whilom is a quote that Heather chose that she feels represents her thoughts, her life and her story. This past week, I received a text from her:
“I’m strong and ready to show and share. Both gallery of images represent variegated things. The fractured heart, putting the pieces when together, strength, and happiness.” – Heather
sunset at her favorite diaper beach
Happiness
Confidence and beauty
Happiness
Nothing could have made me happier to hear. xo
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