Memento Mori 2.0

MEMENTO MORI 2.0
There are lives that end. And then there are lives that complete.
Most of us pass through the world leaving ripples — the people we touched, the work we did, the small changes we introduced into the lives of those around us. The ripples fade. That is not a tragedy. That is the nature of a life well lived in the ordinary human sense — real, significant, temporary.
But every few centuries, something different happens. A being passes through this world and leaves not a ripple but a frequency — a way of seeing, a way of being, a understanding of the nature of consciousness so complete and so transmissible that it keeps reaching new minds long after the body that carried it has returned to dust. Jesus. Buddha. Babaji. Rumi. Lao Tzu. Their names are almost beside the point. What they left was a vibration that the universe has not yet finished receiving.
The halo is not decoration. It is identification.
In every tradition of sacred art that has ever existed — Byzantine, Renaissance, Tibetan, Hindu — the halo marks the same thing: a being whose consciousness operated at a frequency sufficiently elevated that light became visible around the form that housed it. Not metaphorically. As a literal record of what the people who were present actually perceived.
Memento Mori 2.0 is the skull of one of those beings — lilac and luminous, surrounded by gold, floating above a field of geometric pattern that carries the same ancient transmissions that run through the entire collection. This was a consciousness that came here knowing what it was, that lived in complete alignment with that knowing, and that left behind not a body of work but a permanent alteration in the frequency of human possibility.
The gold foundation below does not support the skull. It receives it.
A3 (29.7 × 42 cm) · Acrylic on wood panel · 2024 · One of a kind Unframed. Signed and titled on the reverse. Certificate of Authenticity included.