the body is a home
within the tragedy of living, the body can reveal the art of what it is to become a home.
i spent the last week streaming and connecting with strangers around the world. a new friend said they liked how i called the place i live a home rather than a house. that this reveals something about the way i am living. the space i am keeping. the way i take care of and take up space in the place that i lay my head each night.
i started wondering not too long ago about what it is to actually occupy my body. to sink into my skin with so much comfort that it actually became uncomfortable to be anywhere else. to settle in so deeply that nothing could dislodge me ever again.
i started practicing breathing.
feeling.
believing.
that this body of mine was something that was worthy of being deeply, tenderly, openly, vibrantly, courageously loved.
every shift of the world makes me feel like i am suffocating.
pulling me into places that are not my own.
every shift in the world opens violence.
that tells me that this body is not worthy of liberation.
that it is simply here to be dominated by the standards of folks who have no idea what it is to exist within the only home we truly own.
as the days pass and the nights slip away.
i commit to returning to the place that i know i can truly feel safe.
to the place i know most intimately.
because this place is purely my own.
no matter what they say, they can’t take away the strength i embody.
when i strip away the labels, the boxes, the fear, the shame.
no matter what they amplify in the spaces we flock to like flies.
they can’t take away the purity of my passions that are stored within these bones.
that make this body.
a work of art. a temple. a conduit for liberation.
that make this human a holder of knowing.
that this body is home.
sensory play:
smell - rosemary, sweetgrass, and cedar smoke + smudging
touch - hand massage with pressure point activation
taste - tumeric, ginger, and coconut milk bone broth in the morning
sound - love letters to you
sight - 3 portraits - SUFFOCATE DAILY
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words + portraits by euni
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