Pamela Flynn explores the notion of memento mori in this body of work titled Facing Time.
Typical of Flynn’s work, each piece is process intense allowing her to contemplate and to be one with the work as each piece takes form.
Pending #5
2020
oil on canvas/seed beads
12 x 12
I am using the black beaded circle to represent the ever present looming nature of death. The flowers are blooming and alive in all the paintings- they are life- but they are being edged out and finally gone from the final canvas.