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| Memento Mori | 2026-03-17 | The power of vanitas through vanity, herein serving to emanate motivation and tranquility. |
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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end;
Each changing place with that which goes before,
In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
[Your writing here. This page is for you as much as anyone. A few paragraphs about time, about why you make things, about what this site and its slow accumulation mean. The grid below is the argument; this prose is the response to it.]
Applied Vanitas
::: dropcap Time passes regardless of our wishes, our intentions, our apprehensions. That is perhaps the most beautifully profound fact of our existence, and one that therefore I view with gratitude. :::
MANY ARTISTS AND THINKERS ALIKE HAVE, OVER CENTURIES, TRIED [TO]{.smallcaps} ENCAPSULATE THIS BEAUTIFUL PROFUNDITY. Vanitas^[Spanish Wikipedia has a far more detailed and preferable entry concerning Vanitas. For those who speak Spanish, see here] I do not think that my words can do this subject terrible justice, so rather than trying to encapsulate the potent nature of the subject myself, I will only speak here about what it means to me, interspersing my remarks with art of various forms for us to appreciate.
My Creative Works
::: {.score-fragment score-name="Bassoon Concerto, II (2025-2026)" score-caption="A solo bassoon excerpt from my 2025-2026 Bassoon Concerto."}
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