Colorful portraits

©2020 You are in Motion, in Blooming, in Becoming…
A reminder for days when one feels stuck. You might not be aware of your growth yet, but it is real and happening. Stand tall and proud, you still have flowers to offer and receive.
©2020 Bloom I will keep you safe
A powerful bond.
A promise from mother nature to her guardian: ”You are safe to bloom.”
A promise from the guardian to mother nature: ”You are safe to bloom.”

Christella Bijou, 2019, an illustration of a black woman sitting elegantly in a pink dress surrounded by tropical yellow and green leaves
©2019 At ease with the process
She is trusting the process. She is learning to be in the present and seeing each moment out and each moment in as it presents itself. She is learning to trust the seed to germ for the flowers to bloom. She is at ease with the process.
©2020 I am rooted but I flow
All gold, flowing.
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery…
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter much…
This is the most exciting moment I have ever known. I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me..”
-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
©2025 Maitresse vénérée
An ice queen that turns her lovers into birds when they keep misbehaving. Her therapist agrees. Environmentalists are on her side too( well, until it’s their turn…)
Christella Bijou, 2018, digital illustration of an elegant an powerful black woman in a white shirt surrounded by green palm leaves and birds of paradise flowers
©2018 Laetitia with her thoughts
Laetitia is turning 25 and is going through her quarter life crisis. Will she be okay? Will she be truly loved? Is she beautiful enough? Is she clever enough? Will she accomplish a life she’s proud of?
Does she have what it takes? Is she meditating enough?
©2020 Passion Huntress
She is dreaming of bright and colorful days on a sunny remote tropical island where she can finally free her wings out of her rib cage and live a life full of passion and wild joy.
©2020 La Duchesse
She always looks elegant and polished.
She has a tight reign on her emotions and looks at the world around her with very unimpressed eyes.
However, her favorite pass time when no one is looking, is to lay down in the sun in a field of wild flowers and imagine herself as one of those ”french girls.”
©2025 A Traveller
A traveller cutting through timelines, tiny guides at her side.