Colette

(View in landscape on phones) 2023 and 2024

I hope that ageing will give me the time to love myself.

People tell me that confidence grows with time and experience.

I’ve recently put on quite a lot of weight and I am not yet used to it. The pictures are quite confronting.

My prop, “Mr Cat” was handcrafted by mum during my infancy. She’s an artist who specialised in sculpture.

I rediscovered him during a hospital admission as a teenager- my mum regiffted him to me.

I pine to believe in my mother’s unconditional love and for childhood’s veneer of innocence.

I feel a connection to the woods, I would often go there on days out as a child.

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2024

These new photos were taken at the same time as new photos of Fox.

I’ve been photographed by Phil twice.

My body has changed a lot in between!

I quite like it – I feel all grown up, a woman not a girl.

Change can be unsettling though, as the mind struggles to keep up with the changing landscape of the body.

I hope that no matter how my body changes in future I remember to be kind to it.

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