Still lifes are dead natures and what still remains alive. Still life is what remains after the passage. It is the objects left behind that contain the stories, like ghosts they remain perpetual in their static motion to tell what has been and what could be. They assume a purely narrative and metaphorical language, severing the word. To show, as the etymology of the word ghost suggests, is what these still lifes do, which open the wounds and show what will remain of the human passage.
