THE EMBODIMENT OF DEATH

Throughout history different people have depicted Death in a huge amount of different ways, some illustrations contain a skeleton with wings, some depict a cloaked figure on a horse, most of them however are carrying a scythe to kill its victims with. Below are some depictions that i found interesting:

Here we have Gustave Doré's nineteenth-century engraving Death on a Pale Horse.

Here is an old engraving of Death without the clock and offering a hand to death to this dying man.

Here is an illustration that seems to be the most popular depiction of death, cloaked with s scythe. Here is taking away a child from its mother as she prays for her childs life.

For my installation I want to have one video that represents death/hell, so I want to recreate a death like figure in modern clothes and add some styling to it, perhaps a black tracksuit could work nicely:

The following image is from a film I watched for research called the Seventh Seal, a man plays chess with death to determine whether or not death will take his life:

  

throughout the film this man is in a sort of limbo in this chess game as it determines whether he lives or dies, he is trapped in this place til the game is over.