Acerbumdulce (Latin: bittersweet) is an ongoing long-term series of self-portraits I started following my 69th birthday in January 2023 incorporating various mixed media and digital techniques. 

Growing old is a bittersweet privilege, one denied to so many, but ageing is also accompanied by loss along with emotional and physical changes. Youth and beauty fade, old age envelops the wearer with a cloak of invisibility. The images, although ambiguous, are intended to shrug off my own shrouds and challenge the perception of how a septuagenarian woman is perceived.