Do you have another side of you yearning to be expressed? What better time of year than Autumn to allow yourself to express a side of yourself you don’t get to express on a daily basis. With the Fall equinox brings a new season, a new moon. Change. Transformation.
Like the colors of nature, the leaves magically change from green to golds reds and violets. Like a living art canvas that changes season to season, consider yourself a work of art, because you are, darling. You are a work of art, a force of nature.
When preparing for this photoshoot with Aleks I tapped into one of my inner muses. Imagine the 1920s artist Erte and his paintings and prints of fantastical femmes. I reimagined myself as an Erte Muse to portray an autumnal Goddess like Artemis meets Persephone and turned myself into a work of Art.
How do you explore your inner muse? Honestly I didn’t have something in mind. I simply wandered through my local resale shop in Brooklyn and let my imagination be open to what I saw and touched. Then this dress like magic appeared.That turquoise color drew me in like a cool pool of water or aquamarine sky.
Take on a different character. Perhaps an aspect of yourself that is yearning to emerge
Go to a resale shop. Play with hats and colors. Play with jewels and vintage jackets. Play with tweeds or leather. Get a new haircut or hairstyle. Grow a moustache or trim your beard. Try a new hair color or let yourself go naturally gray. Dare yourself to try something new.
You’re never too old to play. Play keeps you young at heart.
Give yourself permission to dabble and experiment. You just may discover something new about yourself you can incorporate into real life. A daring side. A bold side. A more fully expressed YOU. What is that inner Muse yearning to unleash and express itself?
So go on. I dare you. Play. Dress to express your inner muse. And see what else emerges for you that you can take into real life.
