Title: Memento Mori... The Best of Me.
Dimensions: 22” x 14.5”
Rationale: For my portrait collage I was inspired by Wangechi Mutu’s work about the black female body and the style that she used to address her subject matter. My piece isn’t about the same things as Mutu’s work, but I did my best to try and use her style to convey a different subject matter. This collage is about the mortality of our selves and how the knowledge of inevitable decay impacts the mind. This piece is both a memento mori in itself (a reminder of death) but also an artwork about how such remembrance both motivates and torments the person in life. The title/message Memento Mori... The Best of Me speaks directly of an idea that it is this consistent subconscious recollection (although conscious on occasion) of our own limited existence that makes us who we are through the drive it gives us in life. I chose to make my piece dedicated to Memento Moris because the idea of death - and how it’s uncertainty of when but promise of sometime - is both threatening and motivating to the human mind is something that has interested me for a long time, although I only learned the proper term for it recently. As such I was anxious to create a piece expressing my own thoughts on the topic.
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