“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.” -Marcus Aurelius

Death will always be ahead of us. Not necessarily looking forward to death, but seeing it changes how we act, see, feel daily. Memento Mori can be seen as remembering death so that an individual can live the best life, living presently.

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Literally, time to us is numbers, which is seen as "hard". But when someone asks us what happened during that 'time', we recall time as memories, sounds, people, eras, events, etc., relative experiences are seen as "soft". This is based off surrealist Salvador Dali's painting "Persistence of Memory".

Living in Washington state, time is so slow and learning how to take the timing and enjoy every single millisecond of it is just as rewarding. I am inspired by growing up around the forests and the growth of trees and nature as an indicator of time. Instead of trees 'counting down' to death, it counts up.

I drafted a mirror clock that spirals out in a meditative manner. Every ring, I hope the individual looking at the mirror reminisces one year and the next ring, the next year. Indicating time are unique individual subject experiences and memories.

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