The icons selected for the Memento Mori Drawings are harbingers of culture. The idioms are expressions of death, without explicitly using the word. The imagery is meant to emulate the mechanically printed, yet the closer one comes to the work the hand becomes more and more evident.

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.