Life

“This piece is a reminder to find your truth.  To trust yourself, letting go of judgement and expectation.  To allow yourself to be the shining light you were always meant to be - however that looks to you”.

Inspiration

I experience life in vivid colour.  My dark days are very dark, my great days shine lumoiusly bright.  This self portrait is a reminder that we can hold onto the light around us, and that our challenging times are only but a part of our journey.  As someone who experienced bullying, sexual assault and rape through my teens I know that these actions have an indelible impact on a person.  At a cellular level we feel it.  Our bodies respond accordingly, working endlessly to protect us from more pain.  Yet, no matter how someone tried to hold me down in life, I realised, it was up to me.  I was the one who decided I was worthy to shine, and how much.  It was up to me to see life in the joyous, colourful way that I do.  And to let that optimisim inspire others.

Colour Inspiration:

• Yellow: optimism, quick thinking, joy, new ideas, enthusiasm for life
• Orange: emotional strength, frees limitations, frees the spirit, self-respect, meets challenges
• Red: bold, take action, powerful, spontaneous, passion
• Magenta: service to others, self-love, universal love, moving forward
• Purple: learning lessons, acting for greater cause, deep change, harmony
• Blue: nurturing, leadership, trust, truth
• Lime Green: rebirth, female leadership, feminine intuition, completion
  
• Aqua: living in the moment, progressive, reflection, open-hearted, visionary
  White: anything is possible, openness
  

Black: strong will, endings, authority, confidence, in charge, control