memento mori

Ever have one of those nights when you obsess about things that might or might not happen, so much you can't get to sleep? I'm posting at 3:50 AM, because that's what happened to me. I suppose this collage is a message to myself about the perils of peering too hard into the future.

What did the Soothsayer say? "Beware the ides of March."

Medium is cut-paper collage postcard. Statue is of the Emperor Constantine. Preserved hand with growth is from a Mutter Museum calendar. Boy is from an ad for The Sun (a great periodical with fiction, essays, photography). Black area is from a photo of an animal hide with black hair—it didn't scan all that well. And metal grid is from a fashion layout in Interview.