Silhouette of a person sitting on a windowsill, looking outside, with blinds partially open, revealing trees outside.

amy abrew

the scatterings

polaroid 600se | mamiya 127mm/4.7 | polaroid polacolor ultraviolet id | expired 11.2004

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A damaged, color-tinted photo of a mountainous landscape with greenery and hills, mounted on a white wall.

artist statement

Expiration. Everything has an expiry date. Some are printed on a label. Others are excepted by society. Who or what determines an expiration date - the date given when one is no longer useful and, therefore, irrelevant? Aging, in current society, is no longer donned with the virtue of wisdom. If society no longer sees elders as useful for their wisdom, what is their usefulness? No other group feels this societal-imposed expiration date more than women. This project celebrates being past that expiration date and the beauty that still exists there.