"Dance with Death."

Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956).

"Skull."

Edgar Fernhout, 1935

"The Bear and Death."

Louis Moe, 1900

"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."

"A curious use for fire among some Indians was in giving signals. A place visible from a great distance was selected. Upon it a little fire was built with fuel which gave a dense smoke. Sometimes the signal depended upon the number of fires kindled side by side. Thus when Pima Indians returned from a war-party against Apaches, they gave smoke signals if they had been successful... Sometimes messages were given by puffs of smoke. When the fire had been kindled, a blanket was so held as to prevent the smoke rising. When a lot of smoke had been imprisoned beneath it, the blanket was suddenly raised so as to let it escape... Such signaling by smoke puffs was common among Plains tribes."

Frederick Starr (1898). American Indians.

Salvador Dalí - Mermaid (Sirène) [1969]

Jan Davidsz. de Heem «A Vanitas Still-Life with a Skull, a Book and Roses», circa 1630.
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