Every year on the anniversary of the death of the late, famous jazz musician, Bobby Hackett, Gordon Brooks plays at his gravesite. This photograph is from my new art installation: "There's Life after Thirty!" which examines the effects of the passage of time on the faces of elderly people and on the trunks and limbs of old trees.
The presence of life in a tree reveals the inner toughness of the most gnarled and damaged among them. Similarly, the joie de vivre which shows through in the wrinkled and lined faces of people well beyond thirty is an inspiration, it is visual poetry on living well.
"Great Grandmother"
"Age is only important if you're talking about cheese."
