Age Before Beauty

Artist Statement: My two-faced teapot displays the transition from youth to age in a piece that is both interesting in appearance as well as completely functional. The discussion of age is often laced with distaste, or at least a sense of sobriety. I hoped to address this subject with humor, highlighting the idea that we don’t need to take ourselves and our aging bodies so seriously. Especially living in a society with such a weird obsession over youth and beauty, we must understand that, no matter how old we get or how much our features become distorted, eternal youth can be attained by remaining hopeful and curious in the world around us right up to the very end.