Memento Mori, Spring

This illustration is a reminder of our mortality and highlights the importance of finding happiness each day. Memento mori is a Latin phrase meaning 'remember you must die'.
In the skeleton's outstretched hand, a delicate bird's nest cradles precious eggs, symbolizing the potential for new life and growth. A chickadee, drawn to this sanctuary of hope, gracefully descends, embodying the spirit of renewal.
Clutched in the other hand is a cluster of purple crocus, a beacon of awakening and resilience. Their blooms burst forth, heralding the arrival of spring and the promise of rejuvenation.
Around the skeletal figure, cherry blossoms bloom as a herald to spring. Each delicate petal whispers of transience and reminds us to savor the present moment, for life's fragility mirrors the transient nature of these blossoms.
Behind the skeleton's skull, a mandala of lattice work and skulls interweaves, evoking both the intricacies of divinity and the eternal dance between life and death and the constellations of the first day of spring shine delicately in the background, a celestial map mirroring the cosmos above and the rebirth unfolding below.
"Memento Mori, Spring" serves as a poignant reminder to embrace the beauty of life's impermanence, to find joy in the cycles of nature, and to recognize the divine interplay of mortality and renewal, death and rebirth.