Memento Mori

Memento Mori   (Latin for "Remember that you have to die.")   was finished in my studio just days before the entry deadline for the Scenes of the Schuylkill River show. The Ontelaunee Stream in northern Berks County and a pair of my old hiking boots served as the inspiration for this metaphorical work.  The boots symbolize the transience of life in contrast to the infinitude of an ever-flowing stream. I used a limited palette of predominantly cool colors and incorporated scumbling, scraping, splattering, and glazing in my working process to depict solitude and ephemerality.