Aging art

AgeMaps is a project by photographer Bobby Neel Adams in which he does "photo surgery" on portraits to show two different moments in a person's life in

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Oldrich Kulhanek

Painting American composer John Adams was an intensely personal experience for me. Here's the letter I sent Adams to express my love for his work.

rhibozoids: erasing herself 1 (2010) x roberta coni

my mom...... young and old in one picture..... <3

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“A graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, we are enjoying these deconstructed portraits from Colin Chillag. At some points complete, and at times appearing to be in process, Chillag constructs these pieces like passing memories, where certain details remain but others fleeting.”

This is a biro drawing I did of an old hand and a babies hand! #art #biro #drawing #old #sketch #birodrawing

When Syrian artist Sara Shamma heard eyewitness reports of Yazidi women and girls being paraded on a platform by their Isis kidnappers in a modern slave market on the Iraqi/Syrian border before hundreds of glowering men, and then sold to the highest bidder, she was naturally shocked.

Old woman holding a photo of her younger self

“The Old Age of an Eagle is Better Than the Youth of a Sparrow” (2008)

Growing old can be very hard and depressing sometimes. Especially when it comes to that moment when a seniors need someone to take care of them constantly. A