“Dear Death, I accept that you are inevitable.”

Dear Death is a letter written from contemporary folk artist Jana Seven to Death. By writing this letter in the form of art, the artist is attempting to reconcile herself with death’s inevitability. The collection includes pieces of art that recollect children’s toys; a Jack in the Box, a doll house, hand puppets, but when we look closer we notice that Death is lurking in every corner. The dollhouse is actually a Victorian medical classroom with students dissecting a corpse, the Jack in the Box delivers a sad reminder of our end, the wooden horse and cart carries the body of a dead woman.

This collection was created for a special exhibition at the Morbid Anatomy Library, March 31 - April 2, 2023.

Finding a decomposing animal is the woods always brings mixed emotions— sadness for what has been lost, a sense of awe and respect for the life it provides to those that remains. This large assemblage inspired by such a scene is constructed of wood, an anatomical figure made of wire, clay and alpaca wool, fabric entrails, silk flying insects, fabric ferns, leaves and vines, branches, dried flowers, bird’s nest and eggs made clay. It measures 26 x 32 x 14 inches.

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