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The ankle bracelet but a luxury version is🤌🏾🤌🏾🤌🏾

JT shot by mono haworth for poster girl spring 2024

creative direction by Natasha Summerville and Francesca Capper

styled by mel ottenberg

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Diary entry #3

Jozi Architecture

I'm obsessed with the buildings in Joburg and I love capturing them always. It's almost like a time capsule because you get transport to 80-esque buildings.

Rest in peace to the victims of the Marshalltown fire. They deserved better as does the rest of the infrastructure in Joburg.

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This is FIRE!

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Love

Love. A concept I'm so obsessed with. I'm an absolute fiend for romance. My solace is found amongst romance books when I just need to unwind. I even have a playlist dedicated to my future lovers. This weekend, I've been blessed with Red Moon in Venus, an album by Kali Uchis, and On Rotation, a novel written by Shirlene Obuobi. It's really magical when you get the opportunity to experience stories about love from women of colour. To be seen and heard with such empathy and kindness is something that's so important to me. The articulations expressed by Shirlene and Kali are so raw and light, complex yet simple. Shirlene reminded me of the different faces of love and to be patient. Kali taught me that choosing love is something scary and sacred, but the fullness your life will gain is worth the risk. They both have forced me to evaluate love. Now I know romantic love is barely enough for an individual, even though that's the narrative we are made to believe. But I never truly embraced the love I have for the people in my life. I have yet to be graced with romantic love, but I have experienced so much love in my life that I feel beautifully suffocated. I had a dream about a close friend of mine dying, and my heart shattered. Losing her would break a part of my heart, and I don't think I'd be able to get it back. And that's just how I feel about every one of the people in my life. My friends. My family. They are my people. People who are beautiful in all ways. People who I think about when I see something I think they will like. People who I want to be around and make smile. People who make me want to live. Live to be my best, my worst, my mediocre. And that's just so sublime. There's nothing in this world that will take their place, and I just have to declare my love to them. I love my friends and family. So much, and I'm so grateful for this gift that God has bestowed upon me.

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Saturday-03/06/23

Diary entry#2

I've never really been a star-gazing babe. I live in a crowded city drenched with light pollution so I can barely see stars. I also have shit eyes and don't come from a nature family. But I have always been completely enamoured with astronomy. When I did star gazing when I was on a farm in Brits, Pretoria, I was in such a lonely and lowkey depressed state but looking at the night sky made that gnawing feeling slightly melt away.

And tonight the moon reminded me of how sublime space is. I've never seen it illuminate like it did. I've never really paid attention to the moon but tonight she showed me who she was. And that was ethereal and breathtaking. And I'm just so happy I was able to capture her in her glory. I hope you enjoy🫶🏾

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Diary entry #1

Do I matter to you?

Will I ever be gorgeous to you? Enough for you to obsess over me? For your attention? Your time Your sweet nothings tickling my ear? Receiving good morning texts to start off my day?

Do you think you can see me that way?

A way in which I'm desirable? Sexy?

So hot that I turn you on? Rushing to get me off so you can get off?

Do I mean more to you? More than a warm body? More than a therapist?

Do you listen when I speak? Understand the different octaves of my voice? Are you connected to me in a world we can't see?

Does my pain matter to you? Does my happiness matter to you? Does my life matter to you?

Do I matter to you?

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Intro

I created this blog out of the need to invest in my creativity. To make a space where my shit is taken seriously. Tumblr is that space. The reason I love Tumblr is because there is a level of authenticity that other online spaces don't have. Tumblr is a space where I connect with like-minded creatives about ridiculously niche topics. A space I go to in search of inspiration and resources. Tumblr is my creative home, and I'm so grateful to have it. I hope you can join me on this journey of creation and connection.

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