English: "No Vaccine For Death, a tableaux vivant, a wet plate collaboration, July 17th, 2021. This collaboration was inspired by the painting at the Musee de Prado in Spain "The Triumph of Death" by Pieter Bruegel from 1562. This wet plate shoot could not have come at a more poignant time in history. The world is just starting to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Marek my director and I thought that if we could immortalize this scene in our own way that we could possibly put this behind us. Marek chose the title for the production and his thoughts are below. His feelings are that we are all going to eventually die and we focus so much time and energy on things that are not important, we loose track of our time here on Earth. There is no vaccine for mortality and he wanted to make people more aware of this fact.

"In regards to theme - one things that I’ve been think a lot about is how afraid of death our society has become. The idea that we will live forever and pain and suffering should be avoided at all costs has created a lot of problems in our time. The pandemic brings the possibility of death closer to us, but death is the real pandemic - and there will be no vaccine for that - we will all die." “No Vaccine for Death” might be an interesting title..." - Marek Dojs, May 31, 2020

Ninety collaborators came together for no other reason than to create this image together. It was our day in the sun.

I want to thank each and every person that contributed to this fabulous adventure. I am so blessed to be on this creative path with all of you. I want to sincerely thank Monsignor Shea from the University of Mary for allowing us to use the sacred Marian Grotto as our backdrop and set. Marek is a professor at the University and Karel Sovak the Dean played the Grim Reaper with the sickle in the center of the frame. Numerous students from the University also woke up early on a Saturday to join us, which made the collaboration even more meaningful.

Carl Zeiss Tessar 300mm lens, Alessandro Gibellini studio camera, f11, 1 seconds of exposure, 8x10" black glass ambrotype in the historic wet plate process of pure silver on glass. The original plate (plate #3963) is being donated to the State Historical Society of North Dakota to be preserved along with a formal list of everyone involved.