Musings: McKenna
I had the honor to witness + cocreate space with the extraordinary McKenna in 2024. To witness someone’s inner world through their energy, presence, grace, introspection + positivity is transformative. To expand their ability to find voice, feeling, expression through the shape of their skin. Reminds me how art is not only healing, it is the language we speak to capture moments in time as eternal living diaries.
Reflection // Every person who steps in front of my lens is a living work of art.
muse: McKenna @kenna_inbloom
words, CD + visuals : euni
To feel fearlessness - we must continually release the fear of holding the power we possess. We must face the fear of being powerful. And we must become relentless in the pursuit of becoming strong enough to stand in solitude - confronting, becoming, and holding all the parts of ourselves.
I don’t know if you ever settle fully into being - I feel like so much of life is a pursuit - or even just an unavoidable path of becoming. Even when one is not trying so hard - existing demands that we contemplate all the layers of life. And in this excavation, we discover and destroy ourselves.
I am still shaping the most honest parts of myself.
Reframing the ways in which I see and exist within my realities.
Remembering and discovering - that my cup is full - only when I pour into myself. This is a compass. Continually rearranging the ways in which I let others in. How I experience intimacy. What it is to be close. And to be closest with myself.
The body gives, and it demands. It holds everything we’ve ever encountered. Sometimes as a cruel diary - pulling to surface all the things that hurt - all the things we’ve chosen to neglect. It commands we confront all the lies we tell ourselves. It challenges our minds calculations and pushes our false sense of boundaries. It leads from the language of our heart. And speaks tender poetry when we feel seen. It weeps without tears. And shakes to reset all that brings us anger, stress, fear. The body is the keeper of our power. Our power-house. It is home for what is true and it is the cup that overflows when we pour into it beyond simple, surface level ponderings.
How long does it take for change to settle into ones bones? Only one will know. It happens subtly. We notice when we stop seeking and reach moments of purely being. We take a sip, a breath, a blink and discover - the things we were grasping for exist within our lives. They - either in parts - or in whole - have become bits and pieces of our daily existence. They have shaped the ways we reveal, feel, and uncover the depths of our own soul.
Not everyone will chase a life lived so intricately. Not everyone seeks from the lens of longing to feel deeply. Not everyone will break over and over again purely to uncover what happens each time you crack yourself open. Not everyone will.
But, what will you do.
To feel fearlessness - we must continually release the fear of holding the power we possess. We must face the fear of being powerful. And we must become relentless in the pursuit of becoming strong enough to stand in solitude - confronting, becoming, and holding all the parts of ourselves.
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