Solitary

'Youth' and 'beauty' eternal are the ultimate desire. While 'forgotten' and 'alone' become the fullest insufferable sin. Somewhere in between is ‘life’.

This piece marries the two themes into one haunting image of the desires and denials of ourselves. A youthful woman with fullest lips and deepest eyes is wrapped in expensive mink, only to fade into an elderly, abandoned, woman who longs to be remembered; not just for who she was physically, but for the life she'd once experienced outwardly.

Age offers wisdom. However, being shut out, or shut in, becomes a cloud onto the mind, clouds across the life one lived.

And youth does not chase us into the future.

- Solitary.