I posted a call out announceing that I was looking for participants for a photo essay.

I asked them about their individual healing journeys and what they thought the general significance of doing this sort of self care work as women was— in particular as women who are intersectionally marginalized.

This process was unique in that it involved no posing. The models were asked to bring the object they associate with nurturing their younger self. Then I invited them to sit on my picnic blanket surrounded by objects I use to heal my inner child. I let them play music on my speaker, and they get an hour to just talk about whatever they felt like. I did not pose any of the models, I let them move and interact with the space freely.

The objective of this process was to create a safe space and capture those moments of joy.