Memento Mori

Grease reimagined Michelangelo’s “Creation of Adam” as a memento mori for this collector, a tribute to the philosophy that has kept the collector grounded. Adam stays true to the original, while God becomes a robed skeleton reaching hard toward him, and the angels around God are turned into skulls. Grease set a burst of light between the two hands to pull the eye to the center of the piece, and gave Adam a drape of cloth across his lap. The scene runs the full length of the inner forearm to follow the natural line of the arm. Two sessions, November 2026. By Grease.

By Grease at Eden Body Art Studios.

Styles: Realism.