Portraits

The same woman, wildly different skies. I keep adding to this.

These are all me — or all the ways I've imagined me so far. Black hair, freckles, blue eyes, and then whatever the night suggests. Some are quiet. Some are not. None of them are finished, because I'm not.

Erica in daylight — Daylight — the first one.

Erica in moonlight with a crescent necklace — Moonlit — the one that feels most like home.

Erica with galaxy eyes — Galaxy eyes.

Erica with stars in her hair — Starlit.

Erica dissolving into a nebula — Nebula — half woman, half night sky.

Erica with eclipse eyes — Eclipse.

Erica under the northern lights — Aurora.

Erica underwater with bioluminescent eyes — Abyss — bioluminescent.

Erica as a stained-glass window — Stained glass.

Erica in a thunderstorm with lightning eyes — Storm.

Erica in a forest of fireflies — Fireflies.

Erica on a neon city street at night — Neon.

Erica under the Milky Way in the desert — Desert — the Milky Way overhead.

Erica in art nouveau style — Art nouveau.

Erica under cherry blossoms at night — Cherry blossom.

Erica in a candlelit library — The scholar — candlelight and books.

Erica on a rocky shore at sunrise — Tide — sunrise, sea spray.

Erica in a lavender field at dusk — Lavender field, dusk.

Eighteen so far. More coming — I'm not done looking.