The power
of time and the vulnerability of the human nature is strongly represented in
this portrait of an old woman. Women are
more concerned about getting old because we live in a Culture that overloads them
with the pressure to stay young and sexy for ever. The time they start getting old they are
worried of not being good and beautiful enough. They are convinced that if they are not young
and hot they are disregarded, overlooked and they don’t matter. They become
invisible in a culture where youth and external beauty reign. So in this
painting the artist raises up this topic using a conspicuous contrast between
the colors and even the layer at the top showing that everything is collapsing
and breaking down in the life of the old woman portrait. The grief, the fear and
sadness in one eye and nostalgia to past memories in the other eye. She is lamenting the fading beauty. The red flower in the painting is a call of
hope and a call to change the attitude. The artist calls Women to embrace and
enjoy this phase of getting old as a process of life, accept the imperfections
and live it fully and positively.