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Vanitas

Vanitas is a type of still life painting that was commonly replicated in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Vulgate, which is the Latin translation of the Bible, reads Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas which is translated into “utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless,” or, “Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.” The word is Latin and alone means “emptiness” and the painting refers to arts, learning and time. In essence, Vanitas represents the meaninglessness of life and evanescence of vanity.

For my project I decided to create my own rendition of the Vanitas painting. Since I’m no good at painting however, I recreated it as a photograph. With the skulls as a reminder of the certainty of death, the candle for smoke, symbolizing the brevity of life, the fruit (rotten fruit) representing decay and ageing, and the broken clarinet for the ephemeral nature of entertainment and luxury. Each symbol shows that death is the equalizer in judgment.......

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