Silver.
Vicki Topaz, a San Francisco based photographer recently showed a collection of portraits of women, all with gray or silver hair in an exhibit entitled Silver: A
State of Mind. The exhibition is intended to investigate what it means to be an aging woman and what it means to be an authentic person. It is not a collection of pictures of old women. It is not a feminist diatribe. The collection is an intimate and touching collection of women, just as they are. It does, though, beg the question, what value do women hold as they age in a youth-based culture? Are we still desirable? Is going gray and accepting it, necessarily political?
State of Mind. The exhibition is intended to investigate what it means to be an aging woman and what it means to be an authentic person. It is not a collection of pictures of old women. It is not a feminist diatribe. The collection is an intimate and touching collection of women, just as they are. It does, though, beg the question, what value do women hold as they age in a youth-based culture? Are we still desirable? Is going gray and accepting it, necessarily political?
I don't think so. I think that it is personal. I do not believe that I have diminished with age in either beauty or person-hood. I feel myself improving, fine-tuning, and continuing to learn. I take these things, lines, gray hairs, as reminders of my hard work and the triumph of having made it this far. I hold fast to the belief that beauty radiates and that a lovely soul never goes out of style.
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