I remember the balmy day that I met Abrianna. I was feeling dry creatively for the past few months and was excited to get my feet wet, both figuratively and literally. These sacred roots sessions just cannot be planned out, they tend to unfold as we go along and it is the most truly magical experience. This was surely the case that day.

I waded in the cool waters, my clothes swirling around my knees. I sat in the earth smelling of rain and climbed up the majestic roots that beckoned me to inhale the tree that towered overhead. My art flowed out of me like the river itself.

Abrianna is much younger than I am but her ability to just sit with herself and just be was like that of a woman who had lived a full life already. Every shot I took I was just gasping at her beauty and at the confidence blooming from her core.

I was so impressed that a woman at the cusp of such change in her life would make it a priority to make having these pictures taken of her a reality. I know she will look back on these for all her days and I hope she will see what I see. A timeless beauty that is deeply rooted.