Aesthetica

by Allie Rowbottom

“Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you’re more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged.” —Marguerite Duras, The Lover

It was all the same, the performance, the reality.

my first wax, first act of self-care, self-directed violence.