“To Name the Goodness,” Five Self Portraits by Juliet San Nicolas de Bradley

Juliet San Nicolas de Bradley is a speech and language pathologist and a fine art and documentary photographer whose work explores the connections we have, whole and broken, to each other, the land, and the spaces we enter. She is also the co-founder of Art For The Isolated. She is from Los Angeles, CA and currently lives in Merced, CA. 

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“Before I make a self-portrait, I sit in silence for at least 20 minutes, allowing whatever emotions to rise to the surface, learning the light, settling into my body and the space. It’s not always an easy process, but the silence grounds me  in what is real.

“I grew up learning over and over again that art is good, true, and can be beautiful. But almost all the art I saw centered around people and bodies that looked nothing like mine. 

“So, part of my art-making is an attempt to name the goodness of my whole being - my Chamoru-Mexican, chronically ill, neurodivergent self - in the context of a world, shaped by white supremacy, that doesn’t see me as beautiful.”

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