Faye Daniels

Bits and Pieces

A little more of things from the hotel from a couple weeks ago.

Good booty and I like the shape my body has in this pose.

2025-07-23 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Aftershock - A Week of Masks 20-24

Mask20
Working Title: The Electric Hermit
Description: Coiled in dark forest greens with lightning-bring neon tracing its contours, this mask hums with a strange internal charge. Pom-poms sit like oversized ...

Go Marry Yourself - BTS

This is normally what happens when I shoot and have an assistant helping. Pizza, diet cokes and music. Luckily the record left in our room at Check In was Michael Jackson's Thriller. We also found Songs from Hawaii and Broken Social Scene in the ...

This week in photos....

I'm currently very into good PJ looks:

And my new steam curlers:
2025-07-19 15:03:30 +0000 UTC View Post

Why Don't You Go Marry Yourself 2 - Vows In Full Colour

Dear Self,

Look at you.

Standing in the centre of your own room.
Wearing red. Laughing with your whole face.
Being too much on purpose.

There were years you tried to shrink —
your voice, your body, you...

Aftershock - A Week of Masks 15-19

Mask15
Working Title: Burning from the Inside Out
Description: This mask pulses with heat. A raw centre flares upward--fur like a flame, sequins like heat distortion, threads like a warning flare. It wears i...

Animal Magnetism

Welcome to Animal Magnetism—a one-woman zoo where trauma wears push-up bras and plastic party hats.

Each image is a middle-aged, fat, disabled, queer woman serving you bedtime absurdity with a side of existential ...

Victoria Erickson knows what's up

Aftershock - A Week of Masks 10-14

Mask10
Working Title: The Veil Between
Description: Cloaked in draped fringe like ceremonial hair or a mourning shroud, this mask feels suspended between softness and sorrow. One eye spirals inward while the...

More from the Hotel with a side of Sparkle

Again, simply going through these with notes. I don't "love" any of them. I brought this dress and was so excited to experiment with it but as I've been losing weight I guess this got too big and I didn't realize. Note to self, try everything on ...

Aftershock - A Week of Masks 5-9

Mask05
Working Title: Ember Bloom
Description: A blaze of colour wrapped in curls and coils, erupting in florals. This mask doesn't hide -- it announces.
Verse:
"I curled in on mysel...

Are the daily masks too much?

I dunno....there's so many I don't want to bother you guys. I don't know how to showcase these through the project. Ideas? Suggestions?

The Ghost Who Refused to Disappear

I had a dream that left a mark.

In it, I was a daughter in a family of witches—three siblings ruled by a cruel and controlling mother. She demanded absolute obedience, drained us of joy, and turned our old cottage in the woods into a silen...

Aftershock - Mask04

Mask04
Working title: Battlepink
Description: Regal and raw. The pink tufts scream softness while the texture below says: I've survived.
Verse:
"I wore pink
like a...

Aftershock - Mask03

Mask03
Working Title: Quiet Bloom
Description: Ringlets rise like petals curled in defense. A blooming silence presses beneath stitched restraint.
Verse:
"My voice w...

Aftershock - Mask02

Mask02
Working Title: Echo Sentinel
Description: A solemn mask draped in metallic fringe and quiet tons. It watches the fault lines and listens for the next wave.
Verse:
"I stood whe...

The things I think when I look through photos

This is probably going to be an "odd" post especially since I'm classically terrible and choosing one "winning" image when I shoot but I'm going to walk you through my thoughts as I look back through some of the photos taken when I shot at the hot...

Aftershock - Mask01

Mask01
Working Title: Seismic Veil
Description: Bands of vibrant texture spiral outward like soundwaves. The fringe below shimmers like aftershock tremors - loud but silent.
Verse:
"...

I Thought I'd Be Further Along By Now

I keep waiting to feel better.

It's been months. Of therapy. Of healing work. Of letting go of the life I thought I needed. And still, there are days where I wake up and I can’t—can’t start the course, can’t pick up the came...

Aftershock (Working Title)

Project Summary

This project began as a commitment to creating a self-portrait each day of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) treatment. As the process unfolded, it transformed into something more visceral: a daily ritu...

My Life in Photos

Lately:
I bought this peony 4 years ago, this week it finally bloomed.

2025-06-15 10:58:18 +0000 UTC View Post

A Couple from Yesterday

Everything feels so weird getting back into shooting. Yesterday was a good day but I was at a hotel that I've shot at before - I didn't have good light, there was a baseball tournament of young boys so there was NO chance at opening the windows......

Softness & Blocks: What I’m Learning About Creating While Healing

I’ve been wanting to write this post for a while because it’s something I think many of us go through — and it feels honest to share where I’m at right now with it.

Lately, I’ve been carrying what I can only describe as a strange k...

An Arrival Ritual

To help your body and nervous system transition from travel / stress / fight-flight into presence / agency / creative readiness.

Sometimes, even when I want to create more than anything, my body holds back. The deepe...

Vows From The Threshold (Marry Yourself 1)

Dear Self,

We’re standing in the hallway between who we were and who we might be.
And it’s a mess.

Nothing is clear yet.
You’re trying so hard to understand—your past, your patterns, the ache you carry like breath.
But...

The Breakthrough?

I had a dream, and in it, I saw my 20s through the lens of my autism. For the first time in my life, I felt the full truth:
I was terrified.
I never understood what was happening.
I was constantly trying to keep up, to act normal...

Why Don't You Marry Yourself - Artist Statement

Artist Statement Why Don’t You Marry Yourself? is a visual love letter to the self. It reclaims the language of weddings—dresses, vows, veils—not in celebration of romantic partnership, but of healing. Born from a dismissal ...

Why Don’t You Marry Yourself?

While I was at my "rock bottom" I was with someone. At the time he didn't get it, and maybe I didn't either but I was specifically looking for safety and protection. Those are the two things that to this day keep coming up in my therapy sessions a...