Death Book lll - Drawing One Last Breath delete and others

and others

‘Kill the language

The demanding admission process makes them live in a security-free community in the desert together with other applicants

The images play off one another that document life before and during the Pandemic [the after is yet to happen]

The memorial in the first year of the 21st century

Death Book lll - Drawing One Last Breath delete and othersThe third edition of DEATH BOOK collects contemporary depictions of death, in the form of drawings, illustrations and paintings. Before photography was invented, we relied on illustrations, paintings and, even more so, real dead bodies to gaze upon decaying flesh. Many visual expressions of death were used to moralize or romanticise death. Vanitas paintings were made to remind us that life is only temporary and all mortal possessions remain in vain.