Richard Perin, Les Fleurs du mal (PEOPLE 2025)

To grow old is to become increasingly porous—to memory, to sensation, to loss. The body, once a fortress, becomes a threshold. Vulnerability isn’t just physical; it’s existential. The image’s nudity isn’t erotic—it’s elegiac. The figure doesn’t pose, it endures. The cloudy sky and distant horizon suggest a kind of emotional weathering, a life lived in layers, now stripped to its elemental form.

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