Time

Depiction 1

Wrinkles

The Chinese shar-pei [dog], naked mole rat, elephant and walrus have folds on their bodies. Humans are born with a brain visually resembling a walnut creased with wrinkles. However, when the same start appearing on our faces, our society with set notions of beauty orders us to eradicate them. They are a natural process of ageing which form over time when we smile, frown, squint, bask in the sun etc.

Each wrinkle has knitted our life experiences of laughter and sorrow. The time we spent on sunny beaches and gleaming cornfields have been mapped on our faces. The body positivity and feminist movements encourage us to embrace these lines of age on our faces. Instead of covering furrows with makeup and resorting to cosmetic procedures and surgery, we see women posing on social media with discernible age lines encouraging others to embrace them.

A friend thought of drawing a face with wrinkles to depict time. They are after all a testimony to all the years you have lived, weaving a garland of memories together.

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