Memento Mori Art Of Play

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Memento mori art of play. The cards are a very bold and vibrant red and feature. A sub genre of memento mori art is danse macabre or dance of death this genre of art has its origins in late medieval times but became popular during the renaissance. History and aesthetics based on the mexican tradition of the day of the dead. Instead of using traditional suits there are stars swords flies and feathers each representing order aspiration chaos and scavenging. We still memorialize the dead and attempt to picture the afterlife and we are seemingly in the midst of a revival in how we contemplate mortality. Dance of death paintings typically portray a skeleton signifying death or the grim reaper walking dancing or playing music. Adventure game in augmented reality.

Like the belief that in the day of the dead the world of the living and the dead meet in memento mori the real and the virtual world mix establishing a parallelism. On a socially distanced five points street corner watch a play unfold live in the windows of the historic savoy julie rada s memento mori feels especially relevant at the moment. It s a replay but a first time broadcast. Not to be confused with the memento mori deck by chris ramsay art of play s memento mori deck was designed by michael mateyko of komboh creative.