This self-portrait was created during a period of physical and emotional adjustment after childbirth.
For a long time, I avoided looking at my body without judgment. I compared it to what it used to be, to what it was expected to be. The softness, the folds, the weight — they felt unfamiliar. This photograph became a way to sit with that unfamiliarity instead of resisting it.
By removing the face, I shifted the focus away from identity and expression. What remains is form, texture, presence. The body is no longer performing. It simply exists. The close framing transforms skin into landscape. Lines and curves become topography rather than “imperfections.” What is often retouched or hidden is allowed to remain visible.
This work is not about idealizing the postpartum body, nor about rejecting change. It is about observation. About learning to recognize myself again through touch, through shape, through stillness.
