Published: February 18th 2020, 7:04:31 pm
Dear Samurais!
I hope you're well :) Unfortunately my partner (also photographer) got sick so we haven't been able to shoot anything the past week, but planning to shoot very soon my next set! Thank you all for being patient <3
I've been taking the time to nurse him and think about how to grow in my work, I've come up with some cool ideas and started to work on them. I'm taking more time for the mental, process side, of my shoots and build them up, foundation up, to create something richer that is even more immersive and to be in sync with my Virtual Geisha journey and story. For me, Virtual Geisha is an art project, that has been my life for the last 4 years and just the beginning of what I'm setting out to do. It's a story about how a young woman found her own voice and who she is, and got the space to finally be that person. Also with a certain degree of anonymity, it gave me more freedom to be whoever I wanted to be, instead of being held back by other people's expectations and labels. It's amazing to unite my real life with the creative world inside of me and a such gift from you guys have given me that I'm incredibly grateful for.
I was looking back at some of the things I've written, I found something I wrote in 2015 at 17, just some months before I embarked upon my Virtual Geisha journey. Reflecting upon it, the poem hints at just the beginning of what I had to do to gain my freedom. I'm glad I managed to. I hope you enjoy.
There’s a whale,
dwelling in the wishing well of my stomach,
like the universe, a widening plummet,
aspirations shut tight like pearls in clams,
moonlight in my hands,
reminiscing lambent plankton,
whilst wading my inner sanctum,
silver glisten of a hooked dream,
there’s a whale to redeem,
my mind spins the handle,
pulling burdens by the bundle,
the whale out of the wishing well,
to excel there’s a need to expel,
excruciatingly, slowly, out of me, he arcs,
never knew whales were made of a million sparks…
swimming away, melting into the night,
leaving me bathed in light and light.
Love,
Your Geisha
Keeping fighting the good fight x