The Empress. Isis. Gaia. Different names, different cultures, different nuances, one archetypal entity wearing whichever face the era can tolerate.

This piece marks the inception of the Female Archetypes series, a curated body of self portraits inhabiting personas drawn from tarot and beyond. Each character carries a facet of Diana's own identity, so the series works as an excavation as much as a performance, the self explored through the archetypes it keeps choosing.

Art direction, model, editing and camera settings by Diana Dău.