Evangeline Lilly Instagram – “But there is another, secret layer we don’t discover until later in life. It keeps itself hidden until…what? Until we have endured? Suffered? Earned the right? Healed? When, where and why it emerges is different for each of us, but, it is there, hidden and calling. And this layer somehow brings you back…to the surface. There you find utterly new beauty that you could not perceive before. It lives tucked in the wrinkles of the limitations, the shortcomings and the ugliness.”-100 Deep Questions by Evangeline Lilly on Substack. (Link in bio.)
In this post, I talk about youth, age, art, writing, depth, romance and everything else that morphs and changes over time.
Photo credits:
Slide 1: @photographedbyonken 2025 and unknown, 2004
Slide 2,4,5,6,8: @shape @maxabadian 2018 and @photographedbyonken 2025
Slide 3: @allure 2005 and @photographedbyonken 2025
Slide 7: @rollingstone Tony Duran and @photographedbyonken 2025
All 2025 images are not retouched. All earlier images have been retouched. Natural is beautiful.
#youth #age #middleage #art #writing #depth #romance #poetry #cynicism #idealism #fatalism #beauty #truth @substack #naturalisbeautiful #ageisbeautiful | Posted on 22/Oct/2025 07:44:30
