“Together, in page after page of seamlessly interwoven layouts, Embody’s words and images transcend gender, transcend the taboo of nudity, even transcend the staid, predictable format of the coffee table book – it transcends all things that divide and separate us and lay bare the naked truth of the things that do tie and bind us all together.”

“I hope with this book, people can sigh and say, ‘I can make peace with myself. I can be all these things and nothing excludes the other. I’m not a static, one-dimensional being,’” she says.

As my next book is going into press, I'm reflecting on the elephantine, at times painful, yet perfect path to the final book: A book has it's own internal intelligens. And birthing it, is a community effort. 

The lens helps me get under the skin, so to speak, of pretense and postures, all the ways we hide, and touch the trembling aliveness within.