#&2013

Self portrait, 2013.05.16

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2013.02.12

I think the reason most of my self portraits are nudes or mostly nudes is that whenever I take a clothed picture of myself, it feels like the clothing becomes the main focus, and the self has to work harder to show through. Clothes can say a lot about a person, but in my pictures I don't like them to do all the talking.

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Self portraits, 2013.05.18

Feeling heavily insecure today, so here are some pictures from a day when I was less so.

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Self portrait, 2013.03.27

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Me by Jordan, 2013.08.11

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This was taken the morning after my wedding night, looking out over the city from our hotel room. You might look at it, look at the words "wedding night" and assume you know the story.

What actually happened the night before is: we got to the hotel room, completely exhausted from the day's events. I got out of my dress and shoes as quickly as I could because I was so full from dinner I could hardly breathe, and my feet were absolutely murdering me. I sat on the toilet to pee, and my period started right then and there. So my newly wedded husband went out at midnight to buy me tampons at the nearest drug store. (He joked that he looked like a walking cautionary tale about marriage, because he was surrounded in line by single dudes buying condoms 😂)

Anyway, the moral of this story is that llife is silly and unpredictable, and things don't have to be "perfect" to be perfect.

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