Aging Casanova
(watercolor illustration on paper, 2008)
"I don't conquer, I submit."
Giacomo Casanova
"All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction."
Marya Mannes
"Because over the past few years, more money has been spent on breast implants and Viagra than is spent on Alzheimer's Disease research, it is believed that by the year 2030 there will be a large number of people wandering around with huge breasts and erections...who can't remember what to do with them."
Andy Rooney
I think it's a bit hypocritical that as a society we constantly make fun of the middle-aged tanned men in red convertibles and of aging women who lost control of their facial muscles due to Botox. How can anybody be expected to age gracefully in a culture obsessed with perpetual youth and sex appeal? Certainly not the aging baby-boomers with the power to purchase an illusion that youth can be captured in a bottle or in the hands of a skillful plastic surgeon.
I can only imagine what my generation will look like in our fifties. If there would be an option for the fifty-year-olds to look as if they are in you twenties I don't think anyone would be able to resist a few nips and tucks to regain their attractiveness. Of course, by then we'll probably have genetic engineering which would mean that no matter how hard middle-aged people would try to look young and attractive they still wouldn't be able to compete with the actual young. Awww, the defective circle of life...
