Self Portrait painting and photography

Ora Ruven · 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Nude, Ora Ruven, Solo Show, 2012  Ora Ruven aims directly, at the end of the day, without even blinking. When she enjoys leaning upon a wonderful classical tradition of the western nude photography, replete with aesthetics and audacity, she seeks to focus intentions on a harsh unyielding self-portrait.  A brave mirror view upon the aging traitorous body. Yet there is grace: it is found in man and creation.  Yoav Shmueli , Curator, 2012  The third age, the fourth gender By Ora Ruven Beauty, whether culturally dictated or whether its perception is burned into our DNA, makes me happy and delighted. Our loss is sad. I look in the mirror and don't recognize me. Who am I? The aging women say: "I honestly earned my wrinkles." And I answer: "What is the connection between honesty and wrinkles? And what is the profit?" Let me grieve the loss of beauty. Tell me that the "new" look should be accepted because that's what it is. Tell me that we should surrender to the winning time. Tell me to look for interest in doing, in recreation, in smart use of the remaining present time. When the sad women wear a shirt with a sleeve to hide their flabby biceps, they were offered to hide their facial lines behind a veil as well. The loss of beauty is the outward expression of a greater loss. It marks the weakness of the body, mind, and soul. Due to its external nature, it may be seen as the root of the problem, as the first cause of discrimination. Is it a beauty preference inherent in our DNA? Is it a cultural preference? It is not important. It is important to separate beauty, and our loss, from justice. I mourn the loss of beauty and, in the name of justice, seek to prevent discrimination against the elderly. This is the war of existence. "You already were" - said a young woman who talked to me about my future and her future. Indeed, even before she was born I already was and did and experienced and fought and gave birth and raised and earned. Now she thinks I should step aside and make room for her. Since time immemorial, elders have fought for their place in society. "Don't throw me away to old age," sang a psalmist. 'Honor your father and your mother', the law read in the Ten Commandments. 'We will ask the elder of the tribe,' said the tradition. But tradition and religious laws have lost their power in Western society. Therefore, a new infrastructure must be built in the fight for the place of the elders, based on the universal value of equality. This is in view of the extended life expectancy and the quality of life that science gives us. The sixties and eighties of today are the forty and sixties of yesteryear. I point to us as a new gender that needs to claim its place. The new gender, the fourth, is age-dependent: the age comes when the man slowly loses his masculine qualities, and the woman loses her feminine qualities. Men and women cease to be sexual beings. They are fenced off in the fourth gender, not man, not woman. They have a weakened sexuality, they don't court, they don't court, they don't externalize sexuality, they even hide and are ashamed of it. What is inherent in our DNA that makes us hide sexuality in our adulthood and old age even though it exists? The end of the age of fertility? The ancient "moral" connection between fertility and sexual relations? What does the world think of a seventy five year old woman having sex? Our right to a place, a voice and respect beyond beauty, and beyond our sexual attraction. After the emancipation of the slaves, the change in the status of women, the fight against the trafficking of women and other evils, the time has come for the old men and women to fight in the name of all values ​​- for their status. The whole society will benefit from a change in their status, and from the contribution they are able to bring. 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