In the Mood for Winter (2 copies left)

Words from an artmodel:

When I started this adventure of creating photos that artists could draw and paint from (many of them self-portraits) in the summer of '21, I could never imagine the places it would take me to. I could never imagine how the start of reference photography would teach me so much about myself, how it would enrich my life. How photography would become a sort of book of records of the transformation of a woman's body through her 30s. A book of wisdom. Of vulnerability. Of love for one's body in ways I believe few other areas provide in this modern life where the main goal of marketing and corporations is to make you hate yourself.

I would encourage the whole world to take self-portraits. For the sake of it. You will learn so much about yourself, if only you dared to overcome the previous sensations of strangeness.

But more than anything, I would encourage everyone to embrace their body for its most unique capacity: the capacity to love, to explore what it means to be alive, and to help others.

In the Mood for Winter is born from a determination of rejecting an automated learnt response of dislike towards winter. And I like to stretch this philosophy in most aspects of my life. I think there's a lot to learn from enduring discomfort. From taking life with the full array of emotions it gives us and not force it to change to a perfected polished result. I think the same thing is found in art. When you do something 'perfect', you've already lost it.

It contains 96 photos.