Memento mori (Latin 'remember that you [have to] die') is an artistic or symbolic reminder of the inevitability of death. It was often used by Roman soldiers.
In the late 16th and through the 17th century there emerged the artistic genre known as vanitas, Latin for "emptiness" or "vanity". Especially popular in Holland and then spreading to other European nations, vanitas paintings typically represented assemblages of numerous symbolic objects such as human skulls, guttering candles, wilting flowers, soap bubbles, butterflies and hourglasses. In combination, vanitas assemblies conveyed the impermanence of human endeavours and of the decay that is inevitable with the passage of time.
This is a series of nine digital artworks using the human skull as leading object and inspired by the use of light, colors and textures from the vanitas artistic genre.
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