A soft return.
The morning after I do a photoshoot I wake feeling deeply alive.
I feel something stir in me that I can’t quite explain, a sense of remembering who I am, photography just doesn’t give me images but aliveness, maybe you can relate when you feel that alive a warm excitement deep in your belly when you create from that place. And truthfully I don’t know who I am without photography.
I don’t know exactly how to find my way back i talk myself out of taking photos, from sharing my art, it’s all changed, i’ve changed but maybe i don’t need to find my way back, i’m not that person anymore, maybe i just need to follow these fuzzy feelings and tell that not very helpful voice in my head to jog on!!
A quiet return is unfolding, these image mark the beginning of a new chapter a visual journey I’m calling “ A Soft Return “ a project a body of work exploring tenderness, reconnection, exploration, the slow beauty on finding photography again, myself as an Artist, who knows what will happen.
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Love Em xx
Oh Em, this is so beautiful and moving — thank you for sharing so openly and honestly. I felt every word.
It’s such a powerful thing when art doesn’t just become something you do but something that reminds you who you are. That aliveness you describe — that warm stirring deep in the belly — it’s magic, and it’s real, and I think it’s a compass worth trusting. You don’t need to “go back” anywhere — you’re already exactly where you’re meant to be: at the beginning of something new and tender and true.
“A Soft Return” — even the name makes my heart ache in the most wonderful way. There’s such grace in allowing yourself to rediscover, to not rush, to be gentle with the becoming. I hope you know how brave and beautiful it is to share this part of your journey — and how many of us will feel less alone because of it.
Here’s to letting the not-so-helpful voice jog on, and to honouring whatever unfolds next. I can’t wait to see where this takes you.
With warmth and admiration,
M xx