Cusp is a visual inquiry into the cyclical cosmic rhythm held in women’s bodies, and the palpable transitions felt with various phases of menstruation and aging. These photographs translate inner sensations and psychic experiences that feel fiercely individual yet inseparable from the collective feminine.

On turning 35, I found myself going back to my teenage self, when I had suddenly lost a certain relationship with my body to an unknown fear. With the ending of every moon cycle, I experience a collective silence resounding with myriad uneasy voices. The body seems to perform a recurring mourning ritual, after which there is a renewed sense of purpose and play.

Menstruation to me, like many others, has been limited to an intense experience of anticipation, fatigue, pain, cultural taboo and the discomfort of being out-of-sync with the world. All in a looping, altered state of being- as if in a strange spell. The womb is the most politicised body part in history but also the least researched.

In devoting time to ponder about the feminine mystery, I am beginning to learn to read my body’s menstrual language and its affects on my mind, to discover the changing nature of sexual, emotional and spiritual selves- to reconnect with the primal, fervent wildness that evokes both the delirium and clarity of the senses.