Womanhood un: Veiled

2023

Womanhood Un: Veiled is a photographic triptych exploring womanhood through the cyclical stages of life: childhood, maidenhood, motherhood and the crone stage.

Drawing from personal experience, family relationships and inherited feminine histories, the work reflects on the complexity of womanhood as both freedom and constraint, strength and vulnerability, love and loss. The mother-daughter-grandmother cycle is considered through symbolic connections to the dandelion’s bloom and the phases of the moon, where each stage holds its own transformation, wisdom and power.

The triptych brings together portraits of my daughter, myself and my mother, weaving past, present and future into a single visual meditation on identity, resilience, grief, gratitude and continuity. Created as a large-scale work printed on transparent material, Womanhood Un: Veiled honours the depth of women’s lived experience and the emotional inheritance carried across generations.