Is your appearance your only strength?

Is your appearance your only strength? What is behind the obsession with one’s appearance? The great phenomenon of our time: People care too much about their own beauty and even make it their only asset with the consequence that one’s own personal resources and abilities are forgotten. Women/men of all ages, many young and attractive, who invest time and money and try in every way to appear perfect in order to stop the flow of time. Beauty in these cases is not so much to show as to hide. What do you want to hide? A deep feeling of inferiority that we do not want to show, hoping that beauty can block any interest in our inner world, almost as if we were sure that we have nothing to say “in this field”. The real value of the person in question hardly matters, it is only a matter of their perception: I do not feel worthy and therefore the distraction by taking advantage of the appearance. It is therefore not surprising that those who have hidden behind the mask of beauty at all costs throughout their lives feel more vulnerable as they grow older and the “chosen” defence loses its effectiveness.

Photography Pascale Weber (www.pascale-weber.com) for Kunstlabor Heinrich Bobst Acrylglas