Memento Mori

The Latin message "memento mori," meaning "remember that you are mortal," is a popular theme in 17th-century European painting. The purpose of these paintings is to remind people that worldly pleasures and beauty are temporary and that this world is a preparation for the next world.

The composition, named after this theme in the history of art, aims to show humanity that it is not at the center of the ecological cycle, and that life can only be sustained in mutual dependence and balance. This work, in which we see only the traces of human beings, reminds the audience that they are mortal through this very preference.