How would you show up in front of the camera if you had never been told what was ‘flattering’?
If you didn’t have any specific perception of what a ‘selfie’ should be?
What would you do the next time you take a selfie if you suddenly forgot what you’d been told you should hide or how to pose? How would you move or stand?
How would you take photos if you’d grown up seeing a representation of your body in the visual media around you (and if you have, how does that play a role in the privilege of how you relate to photos)?
If you knew that you couldn’t do it wrong, that you are enough no matter what?
How would you look into the camera if you hadn’t been told you need to ‘smile for the camera’?
How would you be in a photo if truly no one was watching, if likes or comments had no bearing on your relationship to yourself?
These things that get in the way of seeing ourselves without judgement have been taught to us. So how can we invite ourselves to unlearn them?
We’re claiming space to ask these questions
And to answer them not intellectually but experientially.
Not just with our heads but with our hearts.
Not just with past proof or experience but with the potential of what we have yet to discover.
Not just the answers we think we know but the ones we have yet to uncover.
To create images where we see ourselves represented, our body, here and now.
We’re claiming the space in front of the lens to listen.
To reclaim our self-image and how we choose to see ourselves through the lens.
Claiming ourselves back.
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Join me for the Claiming Space E-Course where we’ll dig into these questions through the camera…we get started soon!
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