Mariana Morais

We are all scuba divers, fishermen and explorers.
We all want hearts and most of us love horses.

We smile without being told to and we go to the beach without a towel. We dry ourselves in the sun and hug without asking for anything in return.

We grow up with an idea of who we are and what love is. We know that horses run free and that currents announce themselves.

And then we grow up.

Now the sun doesn’t dry us anymore. The horses have big teeth and hearts take all that you are, giving nothing in return.

So we go online, where hearts are masked as cookies, to learn what love really is, to finally run as free as a horse with no towel in sight.

And once again we are scuba divers, fishermen, explorers.

My degree project consists of a collection of three chapters about issues such as body shaming, societal beauty standards and online grooming.