Still Life with Skull & Writing Quill

Still Life with Skull & Writing Quill

Some objects look arranged even when nobody remembers arranging them.

A skull and writing quill belong to the visual language of old studies, vanitas paintings, forgotten manuscripts, and rooms where somebody was clearly thinking about mortality more than was strictly necessary.

Together, they create the feeling of a story interrupted.

The question isn’t necessarily what they mean.

It’s whether whoever left them there intended to come back.

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