for those who grew up in soviet era, gagra was a precious refuge of pleasure inside communism's bleak expanse. now its ruins are a memento mori of poetic deterioration.
对那些生活在苏联时代的人们来说,加格拉是一个珍贵的避难所,可以暂时让他们离开苏联广阔的寒冷地带。
crowning the entire composition is a vase of cut flowers, an ulterior memento mori juxtaposed to the terrestrial globe, emblematic of royal power.
画面上最冠冕堂皇的物品,就是那花瓶和并排的地球仪,象征着皇家权势。
but the fact that we know it for a memento mori justifies us in feeling a certain human pride.