Apologeticus: "Respice post te! Hominem te esse memento! Memento mori!"

Apologeticus: "Respice post te! Hominem te esse memento! Memento mori!"

This image is part of a series I am working on titled, “Horoscopes for the Dead,” which are a group of transparent montaged photographs printed on glass. This memento mori is a self portrait created in response to an excerpt from Tertullian’s Apologeticus: "Respice post te! Hominem te esse memento! Memento mori! - Look behind you! Remember that you are but a man! Remember that you'll die!"

By layering transparent photographs of the female body with objects found in nature and text, I hope to examine the palimpsest of emotions attached to how we define ourselves and how the viewer engages with this imagery. I hope to turn the gaze of the lens inward and have began to explore the performative nature of gender and identity found within portraiture.

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Coco Fine Art
10 years ago
Coco Fine Art Artist
Stunning!! Incredibley beautiful and inspiring!! Well done x
Monomax    M. Soldi
10 years ago
Monomax M. Soldi Artist, Art lover
Look behind us to remember where we come from, we look forward to in order to understand where we are going, knowing that we turn into a never ending process ...
Good job congratulations and good luck!

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