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MEMENTO MORI primarily aims at recording and documenting the tombstones and sepulchral monuments at St John’s for aims of preservation. Inevitably, the memorial text and iconography, which
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Memento Mori in Contemporary Art Practice
- Art Practice 2: What Is a Year of Your Life Worth?
- Art Practice 4: Reflecting on Memento Mori
- Conclusion
“Memento mori”, a Latin phrase meaning “remember you must die”, is generally conceived as morbid. But there is a long and fascinating tradition of artwork based on this concept that is designed to encourage a more beneficial appraisal of the time a human being spends on the planet. In a world where the media inundates the social sphere with negativ...
With this article the aim has been to describe the new ways of representing an age-old and universal contemplation: one’s mortality. It further explicates how exploring humanity’s ephemeral nature can lead to the development of an aesthetic where the focus is not the negative aspects of that contemplation. It intentionally steers away from the morb...
I will be analysing my own work at this point – in an attempt to illustrate how the notion of memento mori is interpreted in an individual’s practice. While I avoid the most common macabre metaphors in my work, it contains diverse “remembrance of death” concepts. My work can be described as a contemplation, aiming to capture a new way of positively...
This series is a time-based art project. A contemporary memento mori reminder of fleeting time “What is a year of your life worth” is also about the traces humans leave. The spaced timing is a key conceptual aspect, as a mark was completed for every day for a year. This project is derived from the question: what is the value of a year in a mortal l...
In this piece a skull has been created from resin and attached to a mirror with added painted layers, suggesting the earth and a cross-section landscape. When the viewer looks at the piece they see themselves reflected through the skull, creating thus a literal reflection on life/death...a Memento mori. Memento mori is reflecting on one’s mortality...
Memento mori continues to be a very relevant and powerful process of self-reflection. Artists continue to contemplate mortality through their work, including through this artist’s/author’s practice, which transfers expressions of memento mori to contemporary formats and new aesthetics. This paper has examined how artwork can explore contemplations ...
Memento mori is a Latin phrase meaning ‘remember you must die’. A basic memento mori painting would be a portrait with a skull but other symbols commonly found are hour glasses or clocks, extinguished or guttering candles, fruit, and flowers.
A memento mori, in art and religion, is a symbolic trope or meditative practice that serves as a reminder of mortality and the transitory nature of life. The notion of “remembering death” (Latin: memento mori) appears throughout European history.
Nov 20, 2019 · Art. “Memento mori”, a Latin phrase meaning “remember you must die”, is generally conceived as morbid. But there is a long and fascinating tradition of artwork based on this concept that is designed to encourage a more beneficial appraisal of the time a human being spends on the planet.
Memento Mori is an Index of Death. A primary reason for memento mori’s wide appearance in art and culture, in-cluding film, owes to its indexing of the starkest limits of human existence.
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Jun 23, 2019 · Memento mori, which translates to “remember that you will die,” may seem morbid to some, but was a discipline that was held in high esteem. This practice asked people to detach from their worldly goods and luxuries.
