William Tyler - New Vanitas (RSD 2021)
This is a Record Store Day 2021 release.
The concept of “vanitas” in medieval art refers to the j...
This is a Record Store Day 2021 release.
The concept of “vanitas” in medieval art refers to the juxtaposition of macabre symbols of death with material ephemera in order to illustrate the impermanence of earthly things. What struck me about this was not the representation of death in a macabre/morbid way, but rather that very sense of ephemerality and impermanence. Reading an article about the history of ephemera in art led me to the concept of vanitas, and I wanted to find a way to pivot tha...