Flirting+With+Death

  In this photo you can see a woman, not too old, probably in her mid 30s wearing hoop earrings, a pearl necklace, a bracelet on her left hand, and a black dress. The artist depicts the woman as a someone who doesn’t care about the outcomes smoking and drinking has on her body. Across from the woman is a skeleton wearing a hood, and a drink in its hand. When I think of a skeleton I think of either Halloween or someone who just died. The way that the skeleton is depicted to the woman seems as if the skeleton would represent Death, because of the black hood. If the skeleton wasn’t wearing the hood I would have thought that the skeleton was the remains of someone who smoked too much or drank too much. If you look at the table they are sitting at you can see a gun, a shot glass with alcohol in it, a knife, and dynamite. Almost all of the items I just listed can be used to harm oneself.  However if we look back at the picture, the woman looks like she is about to light her cigarette. While she is getting ready to light her cigarette, the skelton says “ Are you flirting with me?”. When I first read the that question I found it very funny and ironic of how someone could flirt with Death. The skeleton is asking her this question, because by lighting the cigarette the woman is bringing herself closer to death. She is basically making the illusion that she is flirting with Death, because of slow the cigarette is deteriorating her body .Now if you look back at the skeleton he is holding a drink in its hand. The skeleton is doing this because even if it were to get drunk and kill itself it wouldn’t do anything, because the skeleton is dead. That means that the lady most likely either knows or doesn’t care that she is bringing herself closer to death.

 On the other hand if we look at the background of the picture you can see a bright reddish-orange color with black around it. When I think of the color red or orange I think of the light or energy that someone has inside of them, and sometimes I think of Hell depending on how the colors are being used. For this picture I think that the bright orange color represents the body and sole of the woman, and the amount of life she has left before she lights her cigarette and Death takes over. There is also the color black surrounding the bright reddish orange color. The color black for his picture represents death, and how it is surely but slowly taking over the woman's body. I believe that as the woman continues to deteriorate herself by smoking that the light begins to fade away, and as the light continues to fade away, Death begins to take over her body. This picture is addressed to people who do not realize the consequences that smoking, drinking, killing of oneself has on their body. In my opinion I believe that this image was created to help others realize what drinking and smoking can lead to. Which is Death. By the skeleton asking the lady “ Are you flirting with me?” was meant to be funny and cynical, because you can’t actually flirt with death. On the other hand this question should be taken seriously by people who do over smoke and over drink, because those two things can deteriorate your body slowly. Which makes the illusion that you flirting with death. In the end I hope that the people who are aggressive smokers or drinkers realize the how dangerous it is to your body, and how it can lead to Death.