Toothless old git

This group of photos is an essay on two days experience. Day one - I visited an exhibition entitled 'Drawing the unspeakable'. Artists putting into images horrors, fears and anguish which they found hard or impossible to put into words.
Day 2 - I visited my dentist to take the initial steps to replace a number of rotten teeth, with an upper denture. The lower jaw had already received that treatment satisfactorily a few years ago. I decided to record the sorry state of my mouth without the benefit of the lower denture.
Having had the first experience of seeing other people's emotional images, I realize that I am very lucky to be able to get treatment and only experience short-lived minor discomfort, despite the rather unpleasant self-portrait that I have recorded.
The rest of the group shows my efforts to turn that experience into interesting? Photoshop experiments.