Death Becomes Her
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Death Becomes Her is a digital painting that focuses on the relationship between humanity and mortality. While the topic of death often brings on feelings of fear and discomfort, it is this inevitable outcome that affirms our humanity.
Kayla uses a figure of a an African American woman in Elizabethan inspired makeup with a relaxed expression, surrounded by a halo of skulls to symbolize the figures acceptance of her fate.
By embracing death as an essential passage, viewers are invited to reconsider their relationship with mortality.
Fun fact-
In the background of "Death Becomes Her", Kayla incorporates a poem she originally wrote, later translating it into Latin. Below is the English translation of the poem:
"She waits for death like an old friend. There is no fear in her eyes, only the soft glow of anticipation as she longs for its cold embrace. To her, death is no phantom, no thief that comes in the night, but a lullaby that calls her home. A familiar melody that pulsates through her bones. Like the final note of a song, death is a gentle diminuendo easing her into silence. She quietly accepts the eternal stillness that will soon consume her with no sorrow in her gaze.
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