In 2012 I started photographing a young Frenchwoman. As the trust between us grew, we embarked on an exciting photographic journey together: the props evolving from bean pods and corals to birds and a variety of reptiles, and she evolving from model to muse. In each image her extraordinary tranquil interiority is contrasted with an unsettling element, carefully balanced to neither tip into the horrific nor into the cliché beautiful.