omnes vanitas: the puzzling thanatopsis of the paintings of David Bailly

journey to the west: in the Hall of the Monkey King
trompe-l’ลil: the hyper realistic paintings of John Frederick, see previously—via Messy Nessy Chic
outside the frame: using LLM and AI to hear the rest of the story–not that we needed to
velvet goldmine: the art collection of David Bowie—see previously here and here
memento mori: an elaborate lie-detection apparatus from the 1920s