Faye Daniels

The last of it.

The last couple shots from the hotel with weird thoughts and never fully explain anything. Is there any way I can make money lounging around in cute lingerie, eating snacks and watching movies? This photo is only good in black and white. Never over a classic burly pin up pose. I love this. I feel like you can feel the weight of either what I've been carrying or my body in and of itself in t...

Aftershock - A Week of Masks 25-31

(Please note this week includes a total of 5 masks, there were a couple that were taken out of the mix but I've left all the masks with their original numbering to keep things straight on the back end.)Mask25Working Title: The Quiet ParadeDescription: A diagonal cascade of sequins and beaded vines dives this mask like a path--soft pink petals bloom across one side while the other remains calm,...

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. I like this pose. Round lil pumpkin. I like this one because to me it's deeper than some of the others, like it has a story. I feel like the lighting in this one makes my face look alien. It's weird. Weird is always best. And call me crazy but I think the plug adds ...

Aftershock - A Week of Masks 20-24

Mask20Working Title: The Electric HermitDescription: 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 earmuffs, muffling the noise of the outside world, while a fringe of glowing tendrils spills downward like a protective cloak. It is a face of retreat and radical preservation--of someone who&#39...

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 vinyl library. The person I was with had never heard Broken Social Scene before - what a treat!

This week in photos....

I'm currently very into good PJ looks: And my new steam curlers: Thinking about doing this to my hair: (What do we think?) The streak will be blonde at first, I'm thinking I want it more "under" than fully on top so there may be brown streaks over it at the top. But once it's blonde we can have fun and make it pink or peach or lavender!!!!!!Also thinking about doing the ceiling...

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, your grief, your joy.You tried being palatable.You tried playing nice.You tried disappearing behind versions of yourself that were easier to love.But here you are now. Unapologetic. Electric. Whole.So today...

Aftershock - A Week of Masks 15-19

Mask15Working Title: Burning from the Inside OutDescription: 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 its stress like war paint. This is the face of sustained alertness, of adrenaline as a lifestyle, of the nervous system permanently locked in defense. Verse:"My body memorized the fireeven aft...

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 dread. Shot in my self-imposed quarantine (aka bedroom asylum), I play dress-up in children’s birthday hats shaped like animals—because nothing says "healing" like a tiger he...

Victoria Erickson knows what's up

Aftershock - A Week of Masks 10-14

Mask10Working Title: The Veil BetweenDescription: 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 other gazes outward--witness and mystery. It holds the frief of becoming, layered with beauty, burden and cycles that never quite close.Verse:" A curtain of silver and dusk, I stood between ...

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 beforehand.ABOVE:I love how you can see the spark reflection on the wall. Meh I really like this one because it's the weird sad ...

Aftershock - A Week of Masks 5-9

Mask05Working Title: Ember BloomDescription: A blaze of colour wrapped in curls and coils, erupting in florals. This mask doesn't hide -- it announces. Verse: "I curled in on myselfuntil the spark caught. Now I burnin velvet bloom."Mask06Working Title: EmergenceDescription: Soft and otherworldly, this mask feels like the first breath after a long winter. Mink fuxx cradles delicate yell...

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 silent dictatorship. Eventually, we could take no more. Each of us began crafting magical tools in secret, preparing to fight for our freedom.I was discovered first....

Aftershock - Mask04

Mask04Working title: BattlepinkDescription: Regal and raw. The pink tufts scream softness while the texture below says: I've survived. Verse:"I wore pinklike armour.This isn't pretty --it's warpaint."

Aftershock - Mask03

Mask03Working Title: Quiet BloomDescription: Ringlets rise like petals curled in defense. A blooming silence presses beneath stitched restraint. Verse: "My voice was a gardentrimmed down to hush.This bloom learned how to whisper."

Aftershock - Mask02

Mask02Working Title: Echo SentinelDescription: A solemn mask draped in metallic fringe and quiet tons. It watches the fault lines and listens for the next wave. Verse: "I stood where silencefolded over sound-- and waitedbraided in the stillness."

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 hotel. ABOVE: (Photo01)I enjoy that I'm standing over the light, almost like a have a shining aura about me. I like that this is...

Aftershock - Mask01

Mask01Working Title: Seismic VeilDescription: Bands of vibrant texture spiral outward like soundwaves. The fringe below shimmers like aftershock tremors - loud but silent. Verse: "I wore the noiseso it couldn't wear me, I shimmered my silencein electric yellow."I've started to organize this project (although I'm still making masks ). I have 45 currently but some I'm not hap...

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 camera, can’t find the thread that makes me feel like me.I thought once I understood what was happening to me—autism, ADHD, burnout, trauma—that clarity would brin...

Aftershock (Working Title)

Project SummaryThis 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 ritual of making a mask after each session. These masks—handcrafted from paper and adorned with yarn, wool, beads, fabric, and other tactile materials—serve as raw reflections o...

My Life in Photos

Lately:I bought this peony 4 years ago, this week it finally bloomed. New air conditioner at night.BBQ fitI made my first turkey! .....and got this burn/will be scar in the process. I'm hoping it makes me lucky. I hung more of the art I own in my house. It makes me so happy living with art.

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.....not to mention noise all the time. There internet was acting as if it was on it's last legs the entire time so even though I was editing as...

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 kind of block around photography.The thing is — photography is all I want to do. I have so many ideas, so many shoots I want to try, so many pieces I want to c...

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 deeper I go in my healing, the more I realize that photography—especially self-portrait work—isn’t just making images. It’s about showing up in my softness, in my truth, and being se...

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 every time you name something, five more questions rise in its place.It’s exhausting.You are angry.You are hurt.You are so tired of being strong, and even more tired of pretend...

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, to not get swallowed by the fear.I thought that was just life—but now I know, that was trauma. That was survival. That was me, utterly alone in a world that never saw me....

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 of my desire for commitment, this series became a ceremony for my own becoming.Each portrait is a vow made in real time, to the version of me that stood in that place. To...

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 as the things I chase. The things I've never had. I grew up with an alcoholic father who, while I wasn't diagnosed - I feel knew t...