I’ve started growing old. This wouldn’t bother me much if it wasn’t for social media. Algorithms prefer artists who sell their faces first and their works second.

But my face is less valuable now — it has wrinkles, marionette lines, undereye circles. All sorts of defects that beauty filters offer to erase. Stay young, sell higher.

Well, I don’t want to be replaced by this "improved" image, to start pondering about doing something to my actual body to comply. So I decided to create my own beauty filter, a physical one, to draw attention back to what I’m actually selling — my work, not my face.