The images selected for the Memento Mori paintings are influenced by the hierarchy of painting genres according to the French academy in the 17th Century. The idioms all include the word "death," without meaning death. The imagery is meant to emulate the mechanically printed, yet the closer one comes to the work the hand becomes more and more evident. I like things that begin to fall apart the closer you get.

Lately I've been fascinated with idioms. I like the way they function parallel to literary irony; idioms are colloquial phrases whose intended meaning is unavailable (differs considerably) from it's literal meaning.

I think about these works as call and response, the iconographic image is the suggestion whereas the text responds. The text is not a caption in this way but rather the respondent, it's not a subtitle but a rebuttal.