...trudging into the distance in the bleeding stinking mad shadow of Jesus...the Lord out of dust had created him, had made him blood and nerve and mind, had made him to bleed and weep and think, and set him in a world of loss and fire... --Flannery O'Connor
I've written about the Vanitas artwork in the Christian tradition, where skulls, hourglasses or bubbles were inserted into pictures to provide a mortality reminder.
I actually have a skull (not a real one) in my office for just this purpose.
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