Vaas met bloemen 1770 - 1780

This is an image of a flower vase, likely from the 18th century. The vase, adorned with cascading garlands, sits as a symbol of classical elegance and temporal fragility. The vase motif, springing forth from ancient Greek amphora, speaks of rituals, feasts, and the sacred storage of life's essentials, embodying a vessel of memory and offering. Consider how floral arrangements appear in countless still life paintings across different periods, acting as memento mori, a reminder of life's transience, or even in funerary contexts as symbols of remembrance, or as tokens of love and beauty in Vanitas painting. Through centuries, the vase remains an emblem, continuously reshaped by collective memory and the subconscious echoes of history. Its presence here invites contemplation on the cyclical nature of symbols, perpetually reborn.