The painting explores the internal conflict of a man confronting his mortality. It suggests that even those with strong religious faith may wrestle with fears of death and doubts about the existence of an afterlife, revealing the universal nature of human uncertainty.
 
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Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;
To lie in cold obstruction and to rot;
This sensible warm motion to become
A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit
To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside
In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice;
To be imprison’d in the viewless winds,
And blown with restless violence round about
The pendent world; or to be worse than worst
Of those that lawless and incertain thought
Imagine howling: ’tis too horrible!
The weariest and most loathed worldly life
That age, ache, penury and imprisonment
Can lay on nature is a paradise
To what we fear of death.
 
– From: Measure to Measure Act III Scene 1
– William Shakespeare
 
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Acrylics on Canvas, 2026.
5" x 7"; 12,7 x 17,8 cm
Frame in the picture included. (Painting shipped already framed.)
Ready to hang with a ring on the back; easel-backed.
Covered in gloss protective varnish.