Obviously I'm thinking of skulls as objects, as well as memento mori.
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They're all over the internet, singing, dancing, and acting as memetic memento mori.
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By the start of the 20th century, interest in memento mori pieces had stopped
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"I have a longstanding fascination with Victorian mourning practices and memento mori," says Han.
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That memento mori strain gets less funny and more disquieting as the film bears on.
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It's no accident that the evening was one long memento mori, a reminder of death.
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No wonder we're often aware of their status—sometimes intimately, sometimes devastatingly—as memento mori.
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A contemporary memento mori, these images capture the artist's suffering but also invite self-reflection.
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In any case, the first episode of Memento Mori airs this Friday on Beats 1.
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And the geothermal springs at Yellowstone National Park—those boiling, bubbling memento mori—are no exception.
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Garcia is offering the "Memento Mori Tattoo" through Kickstarter ($5 for four in black and magenta).
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In lieu of crystals and green drinks, you'll find memento mori, "grief retreats," and green funerals.
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These ebullient works are devoid of memento mori and other characteristic acknowledgements of death and degradation.
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Alarmist posters around the wall act as memento mori before you even step into the film.
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Guerrilla Shout—a Belfast-based visual ideas team—explores these themes in their recent work, Memento Mori.
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For other presidents, such as Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, religion replaced advisers as a memento mori.
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It fixes a steady gaze on the viewer, a memento mori stuck somewhere between life and death.
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By the end of the song, he is issuing a gentle memento mori to his own tribe: Look
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He carries with him a coin that reads, "memento mori," to remind himself he can die any day.
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His influential 1543 publication De humani corporis fabrica even presented his radically accurate skeletons in memento mori poses.
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Its title, "Memento Mori", nicely captures the strain of dark and self-deprecating humour which runs through his work.
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But it was Jonathan Nolan, Christopher's brother, who wrote Memento Mori, the original short story that inspired the film.
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Maclean's memento mori takes the form of a gentle folk song with a yacht-rock pulse and foamy synths.
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" Although memento mori objects like these peaked around 1500, they evolved from a tradition of the "dance of death.
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Artists were savvy about this market, making the memento mori sculptures not for commissions, but in anticipation of sales.
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Previous theories: The show is a memento mori You-know-who is actually a bot Where the AI comes from
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It was walled in ivy, and at the center stood an old tree hung with jewels and other memento mori.
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But they were not old enough and not so distant in age that their memento mori feel less than urgent.
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Ruysch was famous for developing revolutionary techniques for preserving the human body and for memento mori artworks using human foetal skeletons.
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She has furnished it as a virtual cabinet of curiosities, an autobiographical assemblage of antiques, paintings, objets d'art and memento mori.
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The work of artist Siebren Versteeg, the installation evokes a post-apocalyptic wasteland with construction ruins that double as memento mori.
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The scene is driven by a subtle sense of memento mori; facing this paltry feast, Scrooge wonders aloud: Will Tiny Tim live?
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Jonathan Nolan ended up writing the idea out as a short story, titled "Memento Mori," that ultimately ended up being published in Esquire.
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The Bowdoin College Museum of Art is exhibiting memento mori objects from Renaissance Europe, often grotesquely designed to startle viewers into recognizing mortality.
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"There are pigs (piggy banks symbolize capitalism) and some horns (symbolic of submission to the establishment) and a few skulls (memento mori)," Eléftériades said.
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" My neighbor quotes the writer Muriel Spark, in her 1959 novel Memento Mori: "Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise.
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These generic platitudes remind us of the pensive thoughts that surround death but also its absurdity, reading simultaneously like memento mori and roadside billboards.
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It is between mastery and futility, between the pull of ambition and the memento mori whisper that human striving is empty at the core.
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The Guggenheim owns it, with the provision that new luggage be added every year she's alive—a portrait of the artist as a memento mori.
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The global academic community, and the researchers in Brazil, hope that memento mori provokes an awakening about the urgent need to digitize the world's knowledge.
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You can think of Ash Wednesday as the Christian spin on memento mori, a yearly reminder that our lives will one day end in death.
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You can think of Ash Wednesday as the Christian spin on memento mori, a yearly reminder that our lives will one day end in death.
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The artist and her interlocutors have identified various sources of inspiration for her work — the paintings of Lucien Freud and Jenny Saville, and Victorian memento mori.
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One, a memento mori, involves a cheese grater kitted out with tufted red velvet and spiky teeth to make a coffin for a cast bronze mouse.
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I think about the concept of "memento mori" while looking at his work — and it's not simply because the skull is often the only recognizable form.
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On the church's floor is also a memento mori of sorts preserved from that night in 1942: the twisted, melted remains of the fallen church bells.
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The ingenious improvisations of a restless polymath and this stark memento mori by a disturbed visionary form a perfect pair of bookends for the Italian Renaissance.
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For the most part, these people are anonymous, their haunting presence more moving as a memento mori and reminder of our shared grappling with private loss.
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Once upon a time, people created what were called memento mori: objects or artworks created for the purpose of reminding the viewer that they, too, will die.
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And as we started mixing, the pieces started really falling together and I have hoped that "Memento Mori" would be the last song, that was my vision.
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Her death makes "No Home Movie" even more of a memento mori than perhaps it might have seemed when she finished it, given her mother's impending death.
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Rife with half-seen images of pinups and starlets, gaudy yet bleak, these works are, for the most part, spooky memento mori to decaying glamour and beauty.
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Since family photographs are such a big part of photographic history — from memento mori to department store portraits — the museum focused on the rituals surrounding the images.
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If you didn't know, memento mori refers to when medieval and Renaissance artists would put skulls in their pieces to remind you that you're gonna die someday.
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The entirety of the scribbled name is only visible from one angle, a riff on Hans Holbein's famous memento mori that haunts his painting, "The Ambassadors" (1533).
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On a shelf above his head, however, sits a memento mori for an ed-tech project: a computer monitor still in its box, covered in dust and detritus.
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Memento mori skulls and sometimes real skeletons reflected a Victorian influence, while the "as above so below" idea that gives the book its title comes from occult Hermeticism.
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It is a memento mori etched in twilight, an act of desperation, if not despair, from an artist coming to terms with the inevitability of his own oblivion.
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They stop in villages, speak to people and make images while Varda reminisces about her past, turning "Faces Places" into a time machine and an indelible memento mori.
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To conduct your investigation, you have a memento mori in the form of a pocket watch that lets you view the final moments of the dead, and a book.
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If all of the characters are robots, I wonder if the solution at the end of the maze will be a memento mori: a reminder that they must die.
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The director selects the perfect pieces for illustrating this point, showcasing Giger's paintings of deformed babies, vaginal penetration, and the memento mori of exposed skeletal structures in lingering takes.
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Meanwhile, in the accompanying video, she stares into the camera in a white dress covered in blood, a memento mori if you thought this violent end was just a metaphor.
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The first stems from her contemporary exploration of Danse Macabre, a form of medieval memento mori art where skeletons and other personifications of death are embedded into otherwise typical scenes.
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Recently, he created a Memento Mori selfie stick add-on that also considers mortality with anamorphic graphics which stretch out along the stick and flatten the image into a skull.
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Taken as a whole, the project is a reverse memento mori — an assertion of life, a work that announces "I'm still here," even as everyone else seemed to look away.
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Memento Mori A part of the death industry that was skirted in Rebecca Mead's article about the artisanal funeral director Caitlin Doughty is the cemetery ("Our Bodies, Ourselves," November 30th).
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The show feels vaguely medieval in its visual and alchemical references (a silver human skull in one sculpture evokes a Renaissance memento mori or vanitas symbol), but fittingly contemporary too.
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Predicting Westworld: you-know-who is actually a bot Predicting Westworld: where the AI comes from Predicting Westworld: it's a memento mori Predicting Westworld: Dolores' timeline is in the distant future
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On a recent Friday evening, there were only a few bottles left of the pleasantly grassy Memento Mori, for which a hundred and fifty pounds of wild dandelion flowers were collected.
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" The posters said "memento mori"—Latin for "remember you will die"—and offered students a novel solution to their anxieties about the future: spending time in the student chaplaincy–sponsored "purification grave.
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At another, you lean in close to damned souls being pulled away to hell by devilish creatures, with one lone cloaked figure in their midst seeming to lurk as a memento mori.
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While the head is painted black, Habeck adorned the creature's broad frill with a still-life "vanitas," the memento mori paintings meant to remind people that they, too, must one day die.
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Cheesecloth, animal bones, human hair, and other memento mori adorn each hanging piece, reminding me of the provocative work of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, and bringing a goth-aesthetic to the installation.
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That premise is nothing more or less than the title indicates; "We're Gonna Die" is not a trick, a joke or a disguise for something else, but a flat-out memento mori.
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On Daily VICE: How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse: VICE: You write in your book how artistic traditions like the memento mori and the danse macabre existed to process the reality of death.
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Model: Based on the medieval memento mori, the watch offers a sobering message, "Remember you will die," across its hands, along with a mirrored dial to remind its wearer that life is fleeting.
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Its blissed-out message is a far cry from the "memento mori" -- stark reminders of the transience of life, symbolized by images of skulls and other grim reminders of mortality -- that populated medieval Europe.
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The combination of new and antiquated could descend into gimmickry, but Mr. Kurland's approach feels like a deadpan update of the classic memento mori, in which perishable items serve as reminders of human transience.
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The paper-white, easily identified "CARTON OF EGGS," nearly a stand-in for its subject, is pop philosophy, while "DRAWING TABLE," crumpled unrecognizably in the bottom half of its box, is a tart memento mori.
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In design, their gratuitous beauty humbles us into reflections on the divine; in cruelty of purpose, they are a memento mori, a symbol of ineluctable fate embodied in the futile wriggling of an ensnared fly.
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While the fish in the installation decompose, serving as a real-time memento mori, the glittery baubles decorating their bodies remain impervious, shining on despite the grotesque array of bacteria working double-time around them.
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He smoked, carved the words Memento Mori—"remember that you have to die"—into the wood a few inches above his eyes, then punched his way up into the soil like The Bride in Kill Bill.
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Obviously, some of it was because Trump wanted the convention to be a four-day memento mori focused on the death, destruction, and pestilence that would be visited upon America should Clinton be elected in November.
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We carry the Convergence with us through the vibrant city like a memento mori, for toward a convergence we all must go, and with it, every attachment, every lustful look, the whole worldly kit and caboodle.
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Once you get over the game's brash style and constant, forceful reminders of memento mori, it becomes clear that underneath all the bravado, it's actually a really well made game, with some fun innovations thrown in.
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His untimely death at 37 is also a sobering "memento mori" at a time when the coronavirus outbreak has cast uncertainty over the world and caused the closure of schools, universities, theaters and museums across Italy.
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Throughout the house there are heirlooms: an early 20th-century Irish chinoiserie cabinet in the sitting room, a pair of Umbrian sacristy cupboards in the sitting room, an 18th-century memento mori candelabra by Horton's bed.
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Every knockout and choking into unconsciousness is a tiny death for those with eyes to see and every fighter a memento mori, a metaphor with a message: witness the fragility of the body, live while you can.
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Predicting Westworld: you-know-who is actually a bot Predicting Westworld: where the AI comes from Predicting Westworld: it's a memento mori Predicting Westworld: Dolores' timeline is in the distant future Predicting Westworld: the bots are human
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Just as tangerines begin to go soupy if left in the sun, there is always a subtle undertone of decay in fruit perfume; wearing one can be like grafting a memento mori painting directly onto your body.
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Here was a memento mori peculiar to our culture; a sudden recognition that guns now move through the American landscape with such ubiquity that even a family stroll through Walmart can end with a body on the floor.
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The memento mori approach to Shakespeare served Hynes and Ireland's Druid company very well indeed for its seven-hour omnibus production of four of the canon's history plays ("Richard II," both parts of "Henry IV," and "Henry V").
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In some ways, I see objects in medical museums as sort of science-age memento mori, objects that allow us to come close to and contemplate the mystery of death in a time when dead bodies are rarely seen.
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Hansa Bergwall was 35 when he created the app WeCroak, a digital-age memento mori that reminds its 30,000 monthly users that they are going to die five times a day — presumably to help them live in the moment.
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Despite its inclusion of grim accounts of murder, arson, blackmail and sexual infidelity, "Spoon River" is a feel-good show, a memento mori only in that it encourages its audiences to gather their rosebuds (or daisies) while they may.
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Despite all the feathery swooping and gunning motors, the flashing gold and pounding sun, these immaculately framed, balanced and photographed images have a tableaulike quality, characterized by a stillness (perhaps cultural or situational) that suggests a memento mori. (M.
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According to a tweet by Tesfaye's reps, the show will be called Memento Mori and will "present all of the music thats inspiring some late nights" that Tesfaye has been embarking upon while he's apparently hiding out in Paris.
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"Hand With Rings" is an oddly tender portrait, an expression of the enduring human desire to see inside those we love, and a memento mori for the modern age (when she saw it, Bertha reportedly exclaimed, "I have seen my death").
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His music is woozy, emotional goo, a disgorgement of heartbreak, boastfulness and drugged-out memento mori that reflects influences as disparate as rappers like Chief Keef and Drake, and early 2000s rock bands like Fall Out Boy and Escape the Fate.
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The juxtaposition with the Glindoni painting shows similarities between the two men — the garb of a magician could just as easily be that of a scholar — and demonstrates that skulls could indicate anatomical knowledge, a memento mori, or the dark arts.
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Ahead, where they would be going if they had the resolve, if the journey had undeniable teleological truth, is the monumental memento mori, of which they will have to pass in order to get to the society that awaits in the distance.
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For all his fighting acumen and his grappling genius and his incomparable fur hats, Nurmagomedov is known best at this point as a cautionary tale and a memento mori, a reminder to the human race of its fragility and its random decline and inevitable passing.
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Cellist Jessica Bundy glides through the murk like a will-o'-the-wisp, her strings plaintive and eerie in turn (especially on the gorgeous epic "Memento Mori"), as Quist coaxes tense, complex riffs from his own, and Anson Bishoff's drums provide a steady anchor.
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But in the fantasy worlds of Princess Mononoke and Game of Thrones, both diseases manifest themselves as a creeping pox that begins as a battle wound on the arm, gets concealed under a garment, and serves as a tangible memento mori throughout further adventuring.
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To distract myself from a vague but grave prognosis, I took my anxiety to Google, where I found the grief space thoroughly disrupted by all manner of modern memento mori (the Latin term for an artistic or symbolic reminder of the inevitability of death).
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The pieces we are most familiar with in the Western world were created in a Christian context, in which the memento mori was meant to remind the viewer of death in order to urge them to live a pious life in order to avoid divine punishment.
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Or it's some chattering, pleasant nebbish taking you through his meticulous basement reliquary of Red Sox memento mori, the ball that Scott Cooper threw him during batting practice, a splinter of Rich Gedman's broken bat, Mike Greenwell's rookie card sneering out of an unnecessary lucite sleeve.
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The image of a once-living fruit incorporated into a tile mosaic is jarring and, just as the symbology of Dutch still life presented notions of desire and memento mori, these ceramics subtly struggle with the ultimate futility of art to stop time, try as it might.
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Both death and life linger between each word, turning poems like, "If you are over staying woke" and "Ode to Fried Chicken's Appearance on Scandal" into millennial memento mori infused with the spirit of 70s soul, the defiance of The Black Panther Party, and the glory of Black glamour.
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Conway demonstrates a bright intelligence by embedding a kind of memento mori in these images to indicate something of the past the viewer can recognize as preamble to our current state of affairs, and a sign of what has been lost with the onset of the modern world.
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Dances of death were not confined to two-dimensional art — the ivory memento mori carvings of Renaissance Europe involved two-faced prayer beads where death alternated with portraits of the living — yet books and prints were a way to bring these messages of shared mortality to a wide audience.
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With amusement or pathos, engaging in any aspect of this sort of introspection serves as a memento mori: an exercise in remembering one's own death undertaken less flamboyantly than in the practices inaugurated by ancient religious orders — sleeping in coffins or displaying skulls on the mantel — yet still highly effective.
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The view from my easel contains, from left to right, Stephon the Skeleton (one of many Memento Mori in my studio), my art literature (art history, technique, artist books, etc.), my "Thinking Chair," chess set, computer for reference, my easel of course, paint supply desk, and piano — as lit by my big picture window.
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Not just because of randoms who liked silly stuff like the above, but because it's a clever way to share some of the items that are otherwise best experienced in person, like this inverting memento mori or a rearrangeable "myriorama": As Koszary puts it in a post summarizing his experience: Museums should spread knowledge and understanding online.
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"My will, with the anger that we are all feeling, is to leave that ruin as memento mori, as memory of the dead, of the dead things, of the dead people, of the archives, destroyed in that fire," Brazil's most famous anthropologist, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, who was affiliated with the museum, told a newspaper in Portugal this week.
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They represent a clandestine history embedded within the story of the United States, where for decades a large percentage of its men would amble over to the local lodge after dark, have a drink (or several), don a scarlet robe, then ponder a skeletal memento mori — or take a ride on a wooden goat around the lodge room.
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Some shirk pleasant smells for the foul (Bruno Fazzolari and Antonio Gardoni's Cadavre Exquis, which smells like rigor mortis), others aim to unsettle (Aftelier's Memento Mori, named after the Victorian jewelry designed to "remind the viewer [or wearer] of their mortality and the shortness of human life"), and a select few seek to provoke (Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab's Phobia series, with each scent inspired by a fear).
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With the inauguration of a man who has made self-aggrandizement a business model fast approaching, an important question lingers: Who, if anyone, will serve as Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's "memento mori"?
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To do so, this summer its founders quietly opened a front-of-house tasting room and cocktail bar called Honey's adjoining the meadery, where visitors can sample brews like Memento Mori (drawn from foraged dandelion flowers) and Jewels Into Flowers (an apple mead made from chrysanthemum and chamomile flowers), as well as a menu of bar snacks and cocktails devised by the mixologist Arley Marks of Mission Chinese and Dimes.
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Museum favorites like its mascot, George Stubbs's "Zebra" (9.63), get places of prominence in their gilded frames, while there are unexpected standouts from paintings that sometimes veer into imperial pomp, such as William Dobson's "Portrait of a Family, Probably that of Richard Streatfeild" (1645), showing a mother pointing at a child who was deceased, her red clothes standing out from the family's black, while skulls haunt the background as a memento mori.
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Like, time and its measurement would only be an invisible tool, to accommodate everything I wanted to do in a day, PLUS, you know, frequent intervals of easy, restorative, quotidian, spontaneous magick of some kind (dealer's choice, but, some untethered use of your youth, some reconsideration of a stuck thing, some confession that blood-blisters your vulnerability, some lion-heartedness, some acknowledgement of the memento mori that is your human body.) Right now what I do is: I write down what I'm doing, in 30-minute slots.
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