When I think of strength and its power, many things come to mind—abstract and non-abstract. Its sole purpose, though—whether tangible or non-tangible—is to prop you up as you find the need to call on what we call STRENGTH to help us during times of joy, sadness, regret, pain, loss, the unknown, fear, longing, passion, love, and most importantly, acceptance for the things we cannot control. I suppose as I embarked on this magazine’s journey, this particular issue served as my most challenging and perhaps a catalyst for something great.
While I was trying to find these answers and bring all the right images that would tell an interwoven story between the written word and visual arts, as portrayed by all the amazing models in this issue, there were external forces…