Tag: Memento Mori

• When Your Worst Fear Is Realised

  

  Three months ago, Bryony’s life changed forever. Three months on, she reflects on the moment her world was ripped apart, how it links her to childhood fears and a new found sense of invincibility.

  Death and the Maiden

  15/07/2019

  Guest Post

  Deadmaidens, Death, Grief, Loss, Love, Memento Mori, Mourning, Pain, Personal Experiences, Reflection, Sudden Death

• Art is Not About Pretty Things

  

  Artist Sara Lucas challenges us to see the transience in beauty. Three years on from her breast cancer diagnosis she reflects on the moment her priorities changed. A few fashion magazines and marker pens later she felt alive. After all, we’re all going to die anyway, pretty or not!

  Death and the Maiden

  31/01/2019

  Guest Post

  Art, Cancer, Creativity, Deadmaidens, Death, Death and the Maiden, Experiences, Expression, Graffiti, Illustration, Memento Mori, Sex

• Of Divine Beauty & Hidden Grief

  Nicholas Johnson is the artist behind Divine Excess, an online shop that sells bespoke pieces inspired by Mexican folk art and iconography. Here we find out more about the influences that inspire these intricate creations. From the saintly to the cult of Santa Muerte, Nick also shares some examples of his work whereby femininity is…

  Death and the Maiden

  01/08/2016

  Guest Post

  Art, Artist, Beauty, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Death Rituals, Divine Excess, Experiences, Grief, History, Holy Death, Iconography, Inspiration, Love, Memento Mori, Mexico, Religion, Ritual, Saint Death, Santa Muerte

• Stitching Mortality

  Rebecca Hampton creates embroidery inspired by Victorian mourning practices and the fragility of our own mortality. Drawing influence from Post-Mortem Photography and historic funeral customs each piece becomes it’s own beautiful little Memento Mori.

  Death and the Maiden

  04/04/2016

  Guest Post

  Art, Beauty, Deadmaidens, Death, Death Customs, Death Rituals, Embroidery, Fashion, Memento Mori, Mortality, Needlework, Poetry, Post-Mortem, Practice, Victoriana

• The Female in Mourning Jewels

  Hayden Peters, founder and creative director of Art of Mourning gives us an illustrated tour of female mourning jewellery. Exploring the mourning industry of the 16th-19th centuries we learn about different trends in design and how this reflects cultural attitudes and social norms of the time. From memento mori to locks of hair and cutting diamonds…

  Death and the Maiden

  29/02/2016

  Guest Post

  Art, Art of Mourning, Culture, Design, Fashion, Female, Female Idenity, Gender Roles, History, In Memory, Jewellery, Memento Mori, Mourning, Mourning Practice, Remembrance, Society, Trends, Visual

• The Rebozo: Fashion, Feminism and Death

  Death & the Maiden’s own Sarah Chavez presents the rebozo. For centuries, broken-hearted mothers have wrapped their lifeless infants in them for burial and covered their faces with it to signify mourning. The use of the rebozo as a shroud was once so common in Mexico, many artisans created them solely for this purpose, whereas today,…

  Death and the Maiden

  06/04/2015

  Maiden Post, Sarah Troop

  Burial Shrouds, Culture, Fashion, Feminism, Frida Kahlo, Good Death, Heritage, History, Las Soldaderas, Latin America, Memento Mori, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Motherhood, Mourning, Pregnancy, Rebozo, Textiles

• Death, Sex, Religion and the Erotic Women

  

  Dr Christina Welch explains that Europe has had a long history with Sex and Death, one intimately tied to religion. This post explores a genre of art produced during this time period that melds these themes. It examines ‘Death and the Maiden’ artworks by Germanic proto-and early-Reformist artists who highlighted the folly, futility and transience of…

  Death and the Maiden

  23/02/2015

  Guest Post

  Art, Beauty, Deadmaidens, Death, Death and the Maiden, Dying, Erotic, History, Memento Mori, Mortality, Religion, Sex, Society, Symbolism, Vanity, Women

• Death has a voice

  S Elizabeth has created this beautiful playlist of women  who have constructed and composed aural memento mori exclusively for Death & the Maiden. As humans, we occupy a unique place in the saga of mortality, and these women in particular offer illuminating perspectives on the subject as it relates to the afterlife, funerals & wakes,…

  Death and the Maiden

  14/02/2015

  Guest Post

  Art, Beauty, Deadmaidens, Death, Death and the Maiden, Experiences, Haunting, Inspire, Memento Mori, Mortality, Murder Ballads, Music, Playlist