17th century Dutch painter Cornelis Kick’s still-life of a lemon and pink roses on a pewter plate contrasts the colours of epehemeral life with a timeless dark background (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
not him saying that if we’re leaving, he wants us to at least remember him as the one we liked most followed by “i am getting older and new idols are coming out.”
that’s never happening though, hoon 🥹