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Love the outside of this place! 🤚🏾👍🏽👏🏾👏🏾

Feliz Ano Novo! 🙏🏽❤️🤗🌺🙏🏽

Mica Paris & I at Red Eight Gallery.

Recently, I’ve been engaging in numerous shoots! This photo was taken by my friend . We were making a lot of portrait shots… guess what are they for?

*hint: it has been a dream for a long time… who can guess?

And heyy! I think this dream is now becoming a reality! I’ll talk more about it in the next post!

Did you know that the palm was sacred in Mesopotamian religions, and in ancient Egypt represented immortality?

What does symbology mean to you, if it does it all? Is there a myth that made an imprint on you?

Endurance, resilience and empowerment 🎋

Those words do not speak of the strength that let’s say an oak tree portrays in its stiffness. Once a hurricane comes along, the oak tree will be on the ground, defeated, with its roots up in the air. Resilience to me speaks of bamboo that bends according to the direction the wind blows. It’s considered to be an immensely strong material because of how flexible it is. It can even grow through other trees, in fact, everything that’s in its way.

In the current times, I feel like unforeseen challenges are there to greet me continuously, but I retain acceptance and stubbornness in the mellow state of tranquility, knowing that the hazards around are just indicators of the way I now must adjust to.

In times of distress go into your body. It will discourage the mental processes to consume you whole. For me, all the things my senses pick up in the moment, physical engagements like tai chi, yoga and dance, place my entire being in a place where thought dilute and I find all the occurring in retrospection. These processes eases the imprint the distress wishes to place on me.

- with lots of Love,

Sea

Hiding under that which appears as a shelter, in reality permits the light to enter and reveal yourself in a more fragile way, making you commit to the game of hide and seek and grasp for protection in circumstances that may delude you with threat. Shyness or arrogance, a nervous laugh or an impulsive movement pushing someone aside in stress… all these are ways to find closure in what we inconveniently experience.

All living and non-living subjects are exposed to conditioning that make them vulnerable.

I, for instance, feel very vulnerable not knowing what the future holds. The illusion of control doesn’t help here either. I can protect myself in all ways, yet I will never be able to secure the blissfulness of the moment yet to come. I want to exclaim the strength that I see in my vulnerabilities and the ones that other posses! Lack of control, or the uncertainty that the future beholds enables me to appreciate the transience of the present, forging the innermost love with the people(s) that are by my side Now and the environment that surrounds me Now. I grasp the moments where I can let the masks go and expose myself entirely without the fear of appearing odd.

I insist to embrace the power of your fragility as a being, without the need to seek for a sword piercing others and eventually yourself 🌿

With lots of love,

Sea Flau 🤍