{"id":657,"date":"2020-09-02T20:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T20:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/?p=657"},"modified":"2025-12-06T05:49:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T05:49:49","slug":"fresh-art-a-covid-19-memento-mori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/?p=657","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Art: A Covid 19 Memento Mori"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Happy Birthday, 2020.<\/strong>
12″ x 16″,
 Oil & acrylic on canvas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Memento Mori is an object or image which serves to remind the viewer of the inevitability of death. Historically speaking the intent of the Memento Mori was to advise the viewer to forsake temporal pleasures and attend to the spiritual life which theoretically transcended death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For myself, the Memento Mori reminds me to appreciate the gifts of life, as life is fleeting and an after-life is far from certain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The bee in this painting is a stand in for me. My name, Debbie.lee, means bee, according to some interpretations. I painted this memento mori to celebrate my birthday and the completion of another cycle around the sun. The incorporation of the Covid-19 virus in the floral decoration on the plate commemorates the specific year, it’s most significant event, and is a reminder not to take for granted the pleasures of life life and good health, for who knows what lies ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This painting is not currently for sale, however if you are interested in limited edition prints contact me and I will add you to a pre-order information list.Yes, add me to the list!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy Birthday, 2020.12″ x 16″, Oil & acrylic on canvas A Memento Mori is an object or image which serves to remind the viewer of the inevitability of death. Historically speaking the intent of the Memento Mori was to advise the viewer to forsake temporal pleasures and attend to the spiritual life which theoretically transcended death.  …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}