“Woman Series: Model 2 / The Prize” 🌺🏆🌸(Collage using photos sourced from various magazines including Marie Claire Spring 2021 & Garden Style / digital illustration / @sareytales2021)
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Men using the threat of aging to A) manipulate women into lowering our standards or B) gaslighting women into believing we are somehow less valuable than a younger version of ourselves.
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Nothing new here. But I did like the idea of exploring age using the vehicles that try to sell us the age/beauty/value propaganda to begin with: magazines. This collage combines two faces. One youthful, one aged...two side sides the same coin, really. In each of us exists a young and old version of self. I consider it a privilege, not a burden, to experience the spectrum of life the aging process permits.