Janice Tanaka's video Swimming in Air
I'm not sure whether men care about the fact of being older everyday or not, but apparently, women care. In fact, women's awareness about their age and social reflection can really affect their psychical bodies and psychologic world.
From an innocent little girl to a mature adult, from a young girl to a sexy lady, women's roles and self-responses are changing all the time, within the changing process of their bodies. Self, career, marriage, children, family vs. business, this is a timeline as well as a struggle-line for every female. Especially to the females whom living in an Asian culture environment, the pressures they received from social definition, from men's "controlling" system, from traditional family responsibility are much higher than living in a Western culture.
Janice Tanaka's video Swimming In Air is exploring such pressures brought by psychical aging and social definition. Being old and cannot been loved anymore are the ultimate nightmare for every woman. Besides, the desire to being yourself, to do whatever the heart wants always falling in conflicts with the social expectations or traditional women responsibilities. The sufferings of a self-expeacting ego consistently struggles inside a "nonfunctional" body can hardly be stopped in a woman's life. The very real possibility of becoming too old to realize a dream nor fulfill a desire is intimidating. So the fears of being old is infinite in a women's everyday life.
As females, we always unconsciously question ourselves "when does our awareness of youth begin. . . after it has passed?" in so many different ways and various occasions. However, how does the awareness ever change our experience or the way we act is something we might not do everyday. The answer to the question is hard to say, but we all know the answer reflects a true but very sad reality.
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