Vanitas Hat

A stark black-and-ivory linocut-style memento mori portrait, split vertically between a young woman and a human skeleton. A floral crown, pearl necklace and flowing hair contrast with the exposed skull, ribs and coiling serpent on the opposite side. Framed like an antique emblem or funerary print, the image explores beauty, mortality, decay and the transience of physical form through bold carved shapes and severe symmetry.