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Vanitas is a symbolic work of art showing the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death. Beside using Vanitas symbolic objects, my focus in these images is the rotten food. My intention in this image is to give a visual form to the cancer which took his life but cannot be seen. I have used some conventional Vanitas objects such as the skull, but I have also included decaying objects to represent his hidden illness as well as some other objects that provide a cultural context.