Who are you beyond the preparation of the body?

Who are you? When everything you wear, the products you use, and the preparation of your appearance are stripped away? When you lay there bare, unclothed, unpampered? When the external things that define you no longer cling to your skin? When you are both body and soul — the breeze on your skin, the light in your eyes, the earth beneath your feet? Embracing a degree of vulnerability, a shared humanity, and an interconnectedness with others. The same body, a oneness with nature — Mother Nature. Who are you beyond the preparation of the body?

Image from Sebastião Salgado’s Amazônia Exhibition, Madrid 2023