Back to the hospital visiting routine, keeping an elder relative company. The elderly man in the next bed, although very ill and frail, was having an animated conversation with his visitors, thoroughly enjoying their company. It’s so easy to see elders in a negative way and forget that they have a voice that should be heard; that they have as much right to be visible as younger people. Our media are obsessed with youth. It’s so fake. We shouldn’t have a society that turns away from our elders and shuts them up in homes and hospitals and doesn’t represent them in the media, except through thoroughly patronising images. Look at the self-portraits of Rembrandt as he got older. So much more interesting, more powerful, extraordinary.
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Absolutely we need a big improvement in society. As a social worker I work with older people and here in the Uk Society does not treat the elderly well at all. and I love self portraits and Rembrandt with his great light is a favourite of mine. Lovely drawing
I totally and completely agree!
Thank you. We need a big change in society. If we artists keep plugging away and show our elders, maybe we can make a difference