SELF-LOVE PROJECT
Photographer: Gabrielle Bersamin
Model: Amber Farmby
The Self-Love Project exhibits how we cultivate self-love through various yoga poses and expressions. Through body language we express self-love. Self-Love is a journey through self-discovery; creating an experience with our true self on a deeper level.
At its core, the self-love project wants to encourage anyone who suffers from low self-esteem, depression, and anxiety that we have the power within us to connect and heal ourselves through self-love.
Through yoga we can explore self-love through our mind and emotions to find a more loving way to be comfortable in our own skin. The process of releasing the many layers of unconscious critical self-talk can take time, so be kind to yourself during your exploration of self-love.
The Art Exhibition promotes self-love and self-care by helping you realize that you already have everything you need inside of you. The deeper you dive into the practice of self-love, the more you are directed to accept and love who you are.
Ultimately, the goal is to make self-love a priority every single day. The Self-Love Project will engage us all to embody love and share love. It all starts by loving yourself first.
SELF-LOVE
SELF-LOVE
POEM
Advice to the melanated woman with the durag.
Self love is the best love, and your love will be the best drug.
YOU love yourself.
You are yearning for your love.
Your body is your temple and you can paint it how you want it.
YOU love yourself.
Remind yourself of the time you couldn’t stare at your own reflection, because of the traumatic expression within yourself, Look at yourself and STAND UP GIRL.
When they judge you by the way you look, resist making a memory of their word’s.
YOU love yourself.
So you think you were about to dim your light without consulting yourself first.
You never gave your heart the permission to love yourself first.
Self Love affords you the risk to let go of what does not serve you.
Not being kind to yourself was not the best decision.
Speaking positivity about yourself would have elevated your self-esteem
But on this day forward you will believe in yourself.
You will unpack childhood traumas and know it’s okay to make mistakes
Being authentic is the expression that will set you free.
Do what makes you happy.
You are peace.
You are serenity.
You are the fire.
You are the voice.
You need to love yourself, your heart needs your love.
It doesn’t need another body in your temple.
It needs you to show yourself love and heal, girl.
The truth is self love is unconditional, it is patient, it is kind, it does not envy or boost and it is not arrogant or rude to thyself.
-Advice from the melanated woman with the Durag.
SELF-LOVE MOVIE
Creative Director: Gabrielle Bersamin & Amber Farmby
Videographer: DoubleDub Visiuals, Deserie Hudson