Memento Mori 6.0

MEMENTO MORI 6.0
A single life is not the whole story.
Every tradition that has looked seriously at the question of consciousness — from the ancient Vedic texts to the indigenous wisdom keepers of the Americas, from the mystery schools of Egypt to the channelled philosophy of The Law of One — has arrived at the same quiet conclusion: what we experience as one life is a chapter. A learning curve. A single passage in a journey of staggering length and staggering purpose, undertaken not by the body but by something the body carries — something that was here before and will be here after, accumulating understanding the way a library accumulates books.
This skull stood at the horizon between those two states.
Below: the dots of everything already lived — the lessons absorbed in other forms, other times, other faces, the accumulated density of experience that gave this particular life its peculiar depth. Above: the dots of what comes next — the realms not yet entered, the experiences not yet had, the contributions still to be made to the Creator's endless project of knowing itself through its own creations.
The crown sits at the meeting point of those two infinities. Not as a reward for being exceptional — as a recognition of being complete. Of having crossed the horizon. Of having added, through one more life fully lived, one more increment to the sum of what the universe knows about itself.
A magnificent skull, pink and blue and radiant, crowned at the threshold between what was and what will be.
A3 (29.7 × 42 cm) · Acrylic on wood panel · 2024 · One of a kind Unframed. Signed on the front and on the reverse. Certificate of Authenticity included.