Clairvoyant Vengeance From the Infinite ManorArtwork by Vincent Ciarlo. 23 x 27. Analog mixed media collage with Xerox transfers on vintage paper, magazines, hymnal, graphite, colored pencil, ad charcoal in an antique frame. cargocollective. com vincentciarlo

The postmortem ambrotype is of an infant girl named Amelia who passed within infancy

A study in Memento Mori

Slight variation in bones/measurements may occur

and wheatgerm

or sorrow fade

Called hence by early doom

In Paradise would bloom

Victorian mourning practices placed a strong emphasis on visual symbols of grief and these baskets were part of a broader cultural emphasis on elaborate mourning customs

Black Hair

’ Just beneath it is an hourglass encased in a floral wreath filled with symbolic blooms

Casket Crucifix

or a pumpkin