ALIQUE STUDIO

‘To love beauty is to see light.’

This quote is by the poet Victor Hugo:
And it makes you wonder and realise;
It is your choice, isn’t it? Where, when and how you see beauty around you.

It is delicate for sure. To love and to see, is a gracious process.
The understanding you have of anything and any physical appearance,
including your own.

And then there is time, making it impossible to hold on to.
How beauty travels through time. Every stage is meaningful and essential.

There is so much beauty in decay. The circle of life.
To me the magic of life, and love.

As a woman and as an artist, female beauty and empowerment is always a guiding force.
And finding beauty is clearly an obsessive element in my work.

But there is so much more to it for me, to beauty. And it is a very vulnerable and intimate process.
To see her is to let her see me, my true meaning and how I see her.
It is about making a connection, an agreement in trust and empowerment,
to be able to share a unique moment. Without it, the picture will not matter.
There is no story to share. Beauty is communication.

The sharing, the exchange, the reflection is the real beauty. The not knowing,
beyond the appearance, it is energy.
It is personal and not tangible, and so, there is no truth.

We all have our own truth, our own beauty.

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*Summary of an essay, part of ‘The Study Of Self’, an art portfolio made for Vogue Germany, July 2020