Time travel: The art of an older me

(CNN) Surrounded by seagulls on a desolate street, a small gray-haired woman with a prominent hunch awkwardly peers toward the sky, watching the shadows set in over an empty Coney Island. Her feet: covered by strap-on clogs; her face: wearing as many wrinkles as years she has lived. But the clothes are borrowed and her age is as well. Her wrinkles are carefully constructed latex; her arthritic back a staged subterfuge. The woman beneath is 40-year-old Japanese photographer Kyoko Hamada, the present day version of “Kikuchiyo-san,” the subject of her futuristic self-portraits. (Continue reading at http://cnnphotos.blogs.cnn.com/2013/04/12/time-travel-the-art-of-a-older-me/)

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