Interpretations...Yours and Mine

His eyes are not focused on the issue at all. This contemplation is taking place from within, and it offers up little in the way of hard and fast rules. Things begin to blur when we try to project a future for ourselves. The outcome will almost certainly be linked to the circumstances of the present. If we are not well... physically, mentally or spiritually... then we don't see much hope on the road ahead of us. If we are deliriously happy at the time of introspection... wait... never mind... deliriously happy people don't go down that road. It's not something we are able to convey in words... this feeling of dread or doom or just plain uncertainty. That's why we're so fortunate to have artists like you, hon, who can portray a feeling that we otherwise would have stashed away in a dark closet forever. Intensely provocative and perfectly achieved ... :)

-Helen Grainge

Fantastic! It is always amazing to me that you are able to artistically visualize all the feelings that are involved in a subject. It shouldn't! You have such insight and you consistently show us that with each image. Age is something of an anathema to people. There are those who can't wait for it, and there are those who would do anything to hold it off. Your work, my dear friend, is always top-notch. Excellent!

-Cheryl Lavender

This really captures the way that aging is such an impossible concept to visualize happening to ourselves, I see here visions of things we may dread coupled with the disbelief it will ever really be!

-Bevchiron

My thoughts behind the creation of this image are pretty simple actually. When younger people think of themselves in the future... at an advanced age perhaps... it is a confusing jumble of potential images that cross the mind.

What will I look like when I am fifty? Sixty? NINETY?? Age contemplation is an interesting mental mirage to me.

-John Alexander (aka SirJohn)