from the series "This Too Shall Pass" The end is inevitable - regardless of the state of the physical body at the moment. The realization that the body will turn into “something”, possibly into “nothing”, stimulates hope for continuation. Giving rise to a sort of prospective memory, this realization questions what will happen to the mass cluster of thoughts, feelings, experiences obtained during physical existence and how this cluster will be constituted once the matter is gone. A look back at history shows there has long been a human tendency to attempt acceptance of the fact of death through the immortalization of the soul. In Ukrainian folklore and fiction, one can observe a recurring figure of a fearless woman who clearly understands and accepts the present moment as a post-factum, and death as the onliest outcome of everything. Often, this archetypal woman is capable of transforming death into a sacrificial beneficial act: the death of the woman is approached with the perception of birth and future for several. Here death is depicted as an acceptance of the moment, but not depreciation. At the same time, “the end” is often depicted as a transformation of the body into a plant, a tree, or a spirit of the forest: in contrast to the body, the soul is immortal. By looking through the prospective memory glass today, one is left with a visual auto-narrative, such as viewable kinds of self-expression, e.g. videos and photos, which replaces the ideology of the totemic/spiritual afterlife observed in folklore. The body remains volatile, as well as the moment itself. size 6320 x 5002 px, 300 dpi