age and gravity

jess hancock: i looked at an article on Ella Dreyfus and the differentr work she does and it was the images that really drew my attention to this article. My first reaction was that of disgust at the excess skin and sagginess. ew! Another reason i freaked out was because i realised this is going to happen to me and all oof the people i know and a new generation of young people would see my body how i looked at these. Then i read what it was about and it made me look at it in a more sympathetic light. In this piece called age and consent 1996-1999 Dreyfus is trying to show the taboos of aging and the body. Although we are surrounded by sex and stuff everyday it is only young sex and older people are invisable. That made me realise that if i saw images like this of a younger person i probably wouldn't think much of it and it is only because she is old, not in her prime and because im not used to seeing images like this that i was shocked. Dreyfus described how even the people taking part thought what was happening to their bodies was disgusting. artlink vol22, no1, pg57