Pocket-square Skullflowers in Grayscale by Paul Ryan Trani Cherry_Blossom Van Gogh painted Starry Night

Van Gogh painted Starry Night while in an Asylum at Saint-Remy in 1889

1618-22 (in the Galleria Barberini

It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short

a back-translation of its original name

Politeness

Pocket-square Skullflowers in Grayscale by Paul Ryan Trani Cherry_Blossom Van Gogh painted Starry NightSkulls have a high degree of symbolism often used in art to represent death and change. Paul's design "Skullflowers" represents change (skull) and renewal (flower blossoms). One of the best known examples of skull symbolism occurs in Shakespeare's Hamlet, where the title character recognizes the skull of an old friend: "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest. . ." Hamlet is inspired to utter a bitter soliloquy of despair and