self-portrait, photography 2025.
"The First Date" is a self-portrait manifesto, where the womb becomes not a bed, but a throne. The flower in my hands is not a fragile offering, but an audacious symbol of self-germinating beauty. It is grown by my own strength, nourished by the excitement that pulses in time with the first date with myself.
There is no room for timidity here—only a candid dialogue between flesh and bud, between the one who holds and the one who is born in this gesture. This is not the wait for a prince; this is a coronation. The romance lies not in receiving a bouquet, but in the realization: the most passionate and faithful romance I will ever have begins with me.
I am both the bride and the officiant at this altar.
