The memento mori has endured through the ages and in most cultures, but it’s perhaps not the height of fashion right here, right now.

Yet ‘remembering that one day you will die’ is meant as a life-affirming mantra. None of us will be here forever, all of this will pass.

Choose your priorities. Live well.

We Will All Be Lost. Slide box with old toy monkey, vintage stationery and porcelain teeth ©HelenStone2020.

Chatterbox. Stitched and folded calico ©HelenStone2020.

Cavity. Oil on Canvas ©HelenStone2020.

Watching. Oil on Canvas in vintage frame ©HelenStone2023.