Memento Mori is a painting symbolizing loss and faith and refers to a band of Acadians who tried to escape the deportation of 1755, wintering in Morden, Nova Scotia, where they survived on little beyond the mussels they collected from the Bay of Fundy. Only a few endured to be rescued in the spring my the Micmac who ferried them across the bay to New Brunswick. What was left with behind with the buried remains of those that perished was a hill of mussel shells which were later incorporated into the foundation of a church at the base of the mountain. This seaweed and barnacle covered cross in the painting comes from a church that I owned in Morden that had been floated down the bay from another fishing community in Margaretsville. It refers to both the French Cross that was erected in memory of these Acadians and to the history of my little Gothic church, the changes this community has undergone and my experience living there.