Stylist: Don Sumada @donsumada
Hair and Makeup: Bernadine Bibiano @bernadinebibiano
Model: Olivia Hamilton @fromtheolivebranch
Shot on location at Sandy Hook Beach Park in New Jersey one afternoon in September 2020. Clothing is a mix of designer, vintage and stylists own.
A poem from Olivia:
Here I sit
My physical body dwells
On only thoughts,
Nothing else.
Stored on the shelf above,
My self-
Pretty as a dove.
I close my eyes to further think
About the disconnection,
So to speak.
All I hear is silence-
A seduction of quiet noise.
But before I fall beneath
I catch it-
My reflection staring back at me.
“Remember tomorrow, darling, to be sweet as a dove”. And then it’s back,
my flash sense of poise-
Like leprosy from above.
I quiet the tempting noise
And bear it all with a suitable grin.