Praeteritum Mortuus est

Oil painting on canvas.

“The horizontal painting is titled "Praeteritum Mortuus est" ; it is a 24"x48" canvas. The title translates to "The past is dead". This painting had the intention of promoting mental health and to try and reassure the viewer that the pain and suffering that they have forgone has passed and the past is dead. The past being the skeleton hung in the room and the viewer being the one in the chair being able to have the reassurance that all the pain of the past lies dead in front of them. This painting has underlying intentions of suicide prevention. For anyone suffering through pain, depression, and/or trauma, the painting intends shows that every second that passes through you into the past dies and being stuck in the past can put you in the place of the skeleton and that you belong in the chair alive knowing that it is dead and you will be able to look back on it with your heart still beating.”

By Nathan Puletasi