I love a vanitas, I think they're hilarious.
You can't take it with you!
We all die.
I was walking with a friend on a trail, and there was a rather round-shaped plastic bag tucked in the grass in the woods visible from the trail. "I just know it's a human head" said my friend, visibly freaked out. Might've been, also might've been a bowling ball or a collection of stuffed animals or basic garbage, who knows.
Never forgot it.
So here's a memento mori where it's unwrapped and waiting for you to trip on it.
No Pleasure Without the Taste of Ashes
8" X 6"
Original painting made on October 7th, 2025
Gouache and Ink on Khadi handmade cotton rag paper made in Karnataka, South India