Life is often cruel and death can be random and unexpected, with God paring her fingernails while it all happens.
The book’s pages follow the 8 lines of the poem, cutting up the words in several ways, and reassembling the pieces with original collagraphs and chine collé, employing debossed running text printed in letterpress. Flat color screen printing was chosen for the fleuron (derived from the old French: floron, flower, here representing a stylized ivy leaf), an old punctuation mark or glyph used in typographic compositions.
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.