I would like to keep this image of a skull with a watch gear in the forehead, but would like it to be redone to be much more badass than I was able to achieve.
CARPE DIEM MEMENTO MORI PLUS
I designed one side of the coin with an image of death (the skull), plus an image representing time (the escape wheel gear found in all mechanical clocks and watches), to drive the point home at a single glance. While my coin design has been very popular with my friends and customers, it is quite crude or simple, so I would now like to have real graphic designers recreate my coin so that I can have it minted by an actual coin minting company. I designed a "Carpe Diem" coin a few years ago with 3D modeling software, and have had the coins 3D printed in bronze steel by Shapeways (photos attached to this contest). We will start in the next episode by looking at Horace, the poet of Carpe Diem.Two sides of a 39mm in diameter coin. We exhort you to embark on this journey with us.
The two formulas have evolved and taken different perspectives (especially religions will have a strong impact) but will remain at the foundation of lyrics and philosophy until modern times. The future is the great excluded, as the future is the tense that abolishes the limit, it is virtual, it is illusion. It is lack of boundaries. Both formulas eventually represent the present moment as the only, real, positive time of our existence. The classic perspective constantly goes back to the present moment, and to human existence. In both cases, though, the future emerges as the real evil: it is not the certainty of death that makes the future vain, but rather it is the future itself that one needs to beware. The second, rooted in the future, implies a limit towards the present and can evoke either the vanity of life or the vanity of death.Ĭlassic poetry continuously blends these two formulas into a continuum.
CARPE DIEM MEMENTO MORI FULL
The first, is rooted in the present and implies a limit towards the future it can imply either the full enjoyment of the present moment, or its abdication. Throughout literature, they both become concise yet deep answers in the battle with the evilness of Time: they are deep because apparently contradictory and based on the theory of limit. They deal with limits, where memento mori in particular deals with the absolute limit itself. The two formulas contain the extremes of things, light and darkness, life and death. The first imperative ( carpe diem) is easier to grasp the second one, differently from what one could expect, exhorts us to “ think about death”, not to not-think about it. The two formulas are imperatives, implying the absolute truth Latin philosophers attached to them. These are the fundamental places of classic poetry. Latin philosophers condensed their interpretation of life and death in two famous formulas: Carpe Diem, that we can translate as “ seize the moment” and Memento Mori, or “ remember that you have to die". The very idea of time is in fact linked to humanity, inseparable, even unimaginable without it. To be able to represent Time, one needs to look into life and death, the great limits of time itself – or at least of the human time.
We will then move across time, space, and disciplines to build our own interpretation of time and formulate an answer to Augustine’s question. In the following episodes, we will explore the notion of time according to ancient Latin and Greek wisdom. If I need to explain it, I don’t know anymore”įor now, we will follow Augustine’s suggestion: we will not ask ourselves what time is, but rather we will embark on a journey to explore the interpretations of time provided by great thinkers. “What is time? If no one asks me, I know.
To highlight the complexity of the topic is the great question (and answer) by Augustine in Confessions: Life itself is confined within time, and with Time life engages its most dramatic battle. Time is one of the oldest and most recurring topics in literature across civilizations.Īs such, the topic is as vast as human thinking.
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