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The process of aging: fragment of an on-going thorough self-analysis and description to be completed by the end of my life: Home

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Athena Tacha
Art Library Rare Books Collection N 7433.4 .T32 A43 box 1.2 env. 7

The first fragment of Tacha’s on-going thorough self-analysis and description to be completed by the end of my life was recorded at the age of 38, and chronicles the artist’s history of self-scrutiny beginning with adolescence. She examines changes in her physique that have occurred since, and offers insight into their causes. A daring and unflinching self-portrait of a woman on the precipice of middle age, Tacha seems less interested in making a comment on society’s observations of women as they age as she is in documenting the process in vivid detail as a means of navigating these observations in an intimate and personal way, turning the process inward and taking ownership of aging.

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