Ensie in Bloom

• Photographer
  Mony Nation
• Photo Date
  2024

Inspiration can strike anywhere and by any means. The creation of these images was galvanized by a watercolor series, “Flowers With Legs,” by American artist, Kristen Elaine Whalen. The original painting, “Coffee is My Frog Prince,” depicts a lovely woman sipping a cup of coffee with her face behind a large white flower. In my adaptation of “Coffee is My Frog Prince,” since I am not a coffee lover, except for coffee ice cream, I wanted to create a beautifully demure woman with a dazzling personality and a bit of grit. She became known as “Ensie in Bloom.” MUA: Rebecca Gao Blooming: Ensie

Mony Nation is an award winning, published photographer, writer, and designer who seeks to center Black lives, stories, and communities foremost as well as women from other ethnic backgrounds mainly through conceptual fashion, portraiture, and storytelling within the studio and nature. Her photographic works have been exhibited across the United States at venues that include Venn.Bushwick, the Montgomery Photo Festival, Nomad Works, South x Southeast Gallery, Slow Exposures, Grace College, Atlanta Photography Group, and Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.