I love you as the plant that never blooms

but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;

thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,

risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.’ XVII, Pablo Neruda

I asked creative Jenna Tyson to write on what it is to be nude as part of my ongoing Intimacy Series. “Bound to secrecy and pretence, shame longs to keep us in the shadows. Yet, despite shame’s convincing and manipulative attempts to make us want to hide our humanness and strive for approval… Nothing covered. Nothing hidden. Fully seen.”