In DEATH, John Black engages one of humanity’s most enduring yet often unspoken subjects: death itself — not only as the end of life but as a condition with many faces. Across seventeen works — a number personally significant to the artist — Black expands the idea of mortality beyond physical disappearance, reflecting on the death of emotion, of philosophy, of creativity, of human potential. From the quiet extinction of talent to the slow collapse brought by unhealthy living and excess, death is explored as both cause and consequence of human flaws and fragilities. Technically, the series moves fluidly between media. Some works begin with classical oil on canvas layered with transparent or colored acrylic; others are painted directly onto plastic. Black employs vivid materials — tinted and fluorescent acrylics, gold leaf, laser engraving — to build optical surfaces that fracture perception and invite reflection rather than fear. The artist does not avoid the cultural codes that surround death; instead, he uses them boldly. Brands, globally recognized objects, and familiar visual languages enter the work, making its meditations immediate and accessible. Death remains taboo, yet Black disarms this silence by reframing it through flowers — emblems of fragility, mourning, remembrance, but also transformation. DEATH is not a spectacle of despair but a layered philosophical inquiry. It asks what it means for something to end — whether a life, a feeling, or an idea — and offers beauty as a way to face mortality without denial or fear.