The Secret Garden

May, 2014

Had the poet Robert Frost lived next door to South African model Shane, he would never have penned the line "Good fences make good neighbors"
MONIQUE JACQUELINE SOAKS UP RAYS AND GIVES OFF HEAT ON A CLOUDLESS CALIFORNIA AFTERNOON
oddamn you half-Japanese girls/ Do it to me every time," sings Rivers Cuomo on Weezer's "El Scorcho." Indeed. The allure of Monique Jacqueline—a woman of such lineage—plus the eye of photographer David Bellemere created the perfect setting for a photo shoot, where the sun and shadows played across Monique's body. "Only one word can describe him: inspired," Monique says. "David Bellemere is a sculptor of life, light and the human form." Monique's secret ambition is to take her human form to the big screen and become the next action starlet.