With this suite of paintings I have focused solely on the aspects of time presented in the previous body, viaggi nello spaziotempo, hence the vanitas and memento mori themes. They still engage in the hi/low dialectic that the previous bodies of work, but position themselves in the much more demure and contemplative tradition of still life painting rather than the high drama and over the top humor of a painting like "An Attempt To Slow the Expansion of Space."

Ultimately, these works focus on painting as a practice and tradition rather than as a de-constructible history.

memento mori
Michael Eudy memento mori acrylic on canvas
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still life with erased vase
2007
acrylic on canvas

Michael Eudy memento mori acrylic on canvas
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still life (typewriter with blank page(
2007
acrylic on canvas
24" x 18"
Michael Eudy memento mori acrylic on canvas
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still life with skull and lamp
2007
acrylic on canvas
Michael Eudy memento mori acrylic on cotton/polyester
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the constancy of light
2007
acrylic on cotton/polyester
9" x 18"
Michael Eudy memento mori acrylic on canvas
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still life with seven skulls
2007
acrylic on canvas
36" x 18"
Michael Eudy memento mori acrylic on linen
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still life with a jar
2007
acrylic on linen
24" x 36"
Michael Eudy memento mori acrylic and marker on linen
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gravitas
2007
acrylic and marker on linen
38 3/4" x 49 3/4"
Michael Eudy memento mori
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studio view
2007

work in progress