In this series of intimate images, I negotiate the uneasy relationship between the female body and the medical gaze during perimenopause.

When a routine ultrasound uncovered a fibroid in my uterine lining, I chose not to allow clinical language to be the only story. I transformed this unwelcome growth into a tactile metaphor — an everyday raspberry — making photographs as a way to know it, rather than to pathologize.

The series Foreign Body reframes this common, hidden condition with curiosity, tenderness, and quiet humour. Through these images, I stage an encounter between shrinking and growth, intruder and companion, loss and insistence.

The work is a small reclaiming of agency over how women’s evolving bodies are seen. It invites viewers to sit with contradiction and to consider menopause and bodily change with care instead of fear.