October 30, 2010, 11:19 pm ----- Halloween
‘Memento Mickey'----- By JEFF SCHER
Jeff Scher presents his animated art.
Wide-eyed and always smiling, skulls are the most recognizable bone(s) in your body and easily the scariest. They once whispered, kissed and dreamed, just like us, but now, the life is gone, the soul inside vanished and only a generic symbol of death remains.
Halloween marks the last gasp of fall and our descent into winter. We celebrate this passage of time by dressing up in outlandish costumes, perhaps to keep Death from recognizing us.
“Memento Mickey” is a Halloween memento mori. Latin for “remember you will die,” it is also a genre of art that uses death to remind the viewer that life is indeed fleeting. This is not necessarily morbid or macabre, but life-affirming in that it also reminds us that we’re not dead yet. There’s still time. So make it count.
Shay Lynch’s score is big and scary. I think it works best when it’s loud, really loud. Loud enough to wake the dead.
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