An Artist's Notes on Aging and Death

When we talk about aging another word keeps asserting itself. The other word, the word underneath the word aging, is death. To speak of death is to address the absolute center of human existence. Heidegger saw the human as a being-toward-death. A being that must be able to integrate death as part of life. Not as an accident that ends life, that occurs at the end of a life, but rather that of a being that places itself in the ending. End, not so much as a ceasing, but rather as a fulfillment. Ending as completing.