Will fade with time

24” x 36” Acrylic and collage materials on canvas

Will Fade With Time is a self-portrait built from fragments—torn magazine ads, found text, and layered textures that speak to the absurd, relentless pressures of aging in a world obsessed with youth. The work was sparked by an article titled “The Four-Million-Year-Old Woman,” which led me into a reflection on how women’s bodies and faces are so often treated as problems to be fixed, preserved, or reversed.

Across the surface, collage elements and anti-aging slogans—including the phrase “never fading with time,” from which the title is drawn—interrupt the image of a woman simply trying to exist. The result is a frustrated self-portrait—one that doesn’t aim to resolve the tension, but to hold it.

This piece isn’t about critique so much as exposure: laying bare the everyday collisions between identity and expectation. It’s about the absurdity of trying to age gracefully while being told not to age at all.