Tag: memento mori

Gilt Wood, Oil on Panel

gilt wood
oil on panel
a moment eternal
light plays with shadow
color quickens flesh
the face outlasts its maker
the dead regard us still

Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?) (detail)
Jan van Eyck, 1433
Oil on wood (oak), 26 × 19 cm

Caught

The brevity of life catches one short of breath.
We thought there was time to inhale once more, only to discover a final exhalation.
Was it a dream, a hallucination, or merely the meeting of the circle?
Stars. Dust. Return.