Memento Mori

Through the recollection of objects found in my home that will decompose and a collection of objects my body has expelled -willingly, Memento Mori is a reflection of our own mortality. This work expresses the female body in all its gruesome glory. Using the poetics of an archaeological operation challenging the work with the use of glass as a support medium to depict fragility, I encountered these representations as images of death. During the mid-nineteenth century, representations of dead were made in a strange and frightening manner. As the sentimentalisation of death instilled in a cult of mourning. Mourning was seen as one of the purest of deep emotions. These images became symbols of accuracy and permanence. This accuracy began to be associated with the human mind and soul. It is the poetics of the feminine abject that results disgusting to mankind. The female system derives to be unpleasant. We are the abject.