Bonjour, Silhouette!
Welcome to Silhouette: Profiles in Women.
Why Silhouette? Because what you see at first glance is never the whole story. A silhouette hints at form, outlines strength, suggests stillness. But step closer—and you’ll find nuance, texture, contradictions, history.
This space is devoted to that step closer.
Silhouette isn’t about press releases or polished bios. It’s about asking different questions—and really teasing out the answers. Questions that veer from the complex and pointed (“What part of your identity do you feel you had to edit to be taken seriously?”) to the playful and meandering (my one uniquitous question, “Where are you having the french fries and champagne of your dreams?”). This is storytelling with range—where a discussion about professional ambition might be punctuated by a spirited debate on how to properly organize your closet, personal theories of luck, what it's like to marry into a different culture, or how to greive what has been lost.
Each profile will illuminate a woman in full—her personal mythologies, private contradictions, the soft power she wields or the sharp edges she’s learned to temper. These are women navigating the world on their own terms, with careers that span classrooms and courtrooms, studios and boardrooms. They might be mothers or mentors, newly arrived or long-established, but each brings a different definition of presence, of influence, of what it means to take up space.
This project has been percolating quietly in the back of my mind for over a year. In many ways, it was one of the very first sparks that pushed me to start building a creative presence at all. I didn’t know the shape it would take, or the timing—but I always knew Silhouette was part of the blueprint.
This is a series that resists flattening. There’s no single way to be a woman worth profiling—and no formula for how to ask her about it.
