Time Messenger: Time Flies (Memento Mori)

UTILITY in Unlockable Content includes a professionally matted archival print of the digital painting. DESCRIPTION: Time Flies (Memento Mori). Memento mori is a Latin phrase meaning ‘remember you must die’. This lesson from a Time Messenger concerns our mortality. And a memento artwork is designed to remind us of the shortness and fragility of human life. They became popular in the seventeenth century, in a religious age when almost everyone believed that life on earth was merely a preparation for an afterlife. Death is one of the few things that we as humans are guaranteed in life, and this is a reality that unites us all. However, the way we acknowledge this fact is unique to the individual. And so, what is the lesson? Memento Mori (Remember you must die) so, Carpe Diem! (Seize the day!) because, Tempus Fugit! (Time flies!)