VANITAS

a candle flame's run down the painter's table

You are a candle flame that has left its wick.

Behind you the varnish is drying. Whatever it reaches is painted still forever.

Ahead, the table runs into the dark, and everything on it wants you out.

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VANITAS

Anonymous, Haarlem, c. 1640 · oil on panel · running

The flame holds its breath

the flame is out

STILL LIFE

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table0 in

reached—

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a new best — the painter signs it

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