Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘memento mori’

Death sentence handed down to Bashar al-Assad

May 5, 2016

As I figured would happen, the death sentence has been imposed on Bashar al-Assad. The Arab League said it had decided to “work on bringing all those who participated in and contributed to the brutal attacks against innocent civilians in Aleppo and other Syrian cities to international justice”. The 22-member bloc denounced the “the Syrian…

 

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David Bowie recreated the death of my father

January 12, 2016

One of the strangest things I’ve experienced in my life so far is the video for the David Bowie song “Lazarus.” It’s an exact duplication of my father’s death. My father Edward died of osteosarcoma—bone cancer—on February 23, 2013. Edward was a complete mystery to me. After he died, I discovered that he had every…

 

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Memento mori

May 10, 2015

A memento mori is a work of art that reminds the viewer that we all die. Over the past few weeks I’ve been thinking a lot about death, most likely because of the threats I get. The level of physical danger I face isn’t clear, but I live as though every second could be my…

 

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