Memento Mori

An oil painting of a plains-like landscape. A human skull rests in the foreground. Around it is a yellow box indicative of AI visual recognition marker, taggin the skull as "human, deceased." The skull appears to be observed by a nearby drone. In the background of the landscape sits a massive data center.

A memento mori is a reminder of the inevitability of death, a call for reflection and humility. This modern memento mori, set among a drone and a data center, asks what a human life means in the age of increasing technologies of surveillance and control. What world will be be leaving behind when we go? And who, or what, will bear witness to our passing?

Details

Material: oil paint on canvas

Dimensions
36.5 x 28 cm