Self-published, 2024. Edition of 150 copies. Softcover, Hand bound in Japanese stab binding, 82 pp., b/w illustrated, 200 x 280 mm. Photographs by Elizabeth Alderliesten. Edited in collaboration with Brad Feuerhelm. Design by Tina de Souter.
“Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered…” ― Clarissa Pinkola Estés
At some point you wake up and feel in everything that you have become alienated from yourself. Do you leave it that way out of fear or do you dare to search for your hidden self? Searching for your true self is the beginning of a transformation, allowing you to reconnect with who you once were.
Through a shift in your consciousness by redirecting your attention from the outer world to your inner world, you can find your inner silence, which is the place where you can be yourself and feel whole, calm and balanced, protected and safe. This can be anywhere, it is not a physical place and is independent of time and space. By connecting with your inner self, detached from the outside world and its many demands, you recharge.
Feel the strength to grow into your authentic self. Reclaiming that power is a struggle: to let go of who you were taught to be and to become who you really are. It is like being born again. In doing so, you regain your freedom and reconnect with your instinctive nature, your wild self.
