Isolation Creation Self Portrait Series: Lilith

For the next instalment of the Isolation Creation self portrait series, I had a choker which I had acquired from a garage sale put on by the Melbourne Theatre Company many years ago.

I’d always wanted to use it in a costume somehow and so started playing around by adding some black tulle and styling my hair in an Edwardian inspired design.

I believe in the power that clothes and costumes have in making a person transform into someone else.

Once the look was complete I felt like I had become someone else completely, or perhaps it was that this character was a part of me.

It felt the most real and authentic portrait so far.

Being caught up in quarantine here in Melbourne for so long now, I’ve been forced to go deep within myself to search for aspects that in the past I had ignored or pushed aside. It felt natural and safe to explore this side of myself through creating this series, the emotion, pain, magic and untapped potential.

Lilith represents the side of the female which is often shunned or cast aside by society, or at least in the past it was.

In the bible she is said to have been the first wife of Adam but was too much for him to handle so she fled, seeking a more fulfilling life that wouldn’t have her be dominated constantly by a man. She considered herself to be equal to her husband, but all he wanted was for her to be below him.

She was powerful and she knew it. The spirit on Lilith is said to be in all women, when we use our power and act with our full potential, without holding back she comes alive.

The last image I chose to include the Jericho rose, which I have been using lately during meditations. I’ll be writing more about this magical plant in entries to come.

Leave a comment, share and let me know if you too have a box of costumes which you’ve been digging into lately.