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If you are not remembered,

Did you ever really exist?

 

Who are you at any given moment? 

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we beings are continually evolving and

we display different external personalities

from our internal being.

 

How could I possible know who my

mother was or would be;

she died in medias res

 

She hovers in the middle world
still....

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she is petrified like a fossil

still

 

These persistent thoughts essentially conceived my project’s name and focus.   Traditionally the phrase "Still Life" denotes  “the subject matter of a still life painting or sculpture is anything that does not move or is dead” (“Tate”). 

 

In this definition, two components connect to my idea of still life:

(1) a scene that has no movement, usually containing inanimate objects; or

(2) the subject matter can be dead.

 

The next interpretation is still life as 

 

still life to live. 

 

From this angle, I must survive and navigate the world without my mother. I must

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Still have life.

 

lack of movement, the deep introspection of a meditative state;

as in quieting the mind

is a still life. 

 

The three angles in conjunction form a trinity:

 

three connected corners of mother loss. 

 

Each angle can work independently but together they reinforce

 

the profound intricate consequences of mother loss.