In collaboration with prop stylist Olivia Crouppen, I wanted to explore the duality of standards imposed on women—the tension between gentleness and power, expectation and individuality. There is an unspoken pressure to exist between contradiction, to be both nurturing and assertive, vulnerable yet unbreakable. We are expected to navigate these roles seamlessly, yet the expectations are heavy and unrelenting, as if identity is something both fleeting and rooted, always on the verge of transformation.