Memento Vivere / Memento Mori

Saturday, June 20
at 6:00pm

The Metro Gallery
455 P. Guevarra Street, Addition Hills, 1500 San Juan del Monte

Tantum Tempore, Solum est Memoria
(There is Only Time, There is Only Remembrance)

The Bible preached it and The Byrds had a hit with it. As William Wordsworth intimated it, even Robin Williams took a stand with carpé diem. Between life and death, there is only the void called time. Fleeting or forever, we mark this void with only our moments. Ephemeral or eternal, we fill this void with only our remembrances.

A time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;

A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

A time to get, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

A time to rend, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

A time to love, and a time to hate;
a time of war, and a time of peace.

A time to be born, and a time to die.
(Ecclesiastes 3 fragments)

by Pia Hamoy