In my composition Breathless Decay I explored how death is portrayed from a contemporary viewpoint. I was inspired by the style of Instagram artist IdzyDraw’s animalia confronting interpretations, Tara Sellio’s gory still life’s, Zdzisław Beksiński’s dystopian imagery and Albrecht Dürer’s 1498 The Four Horsemen, from The Apocalypse. My aim is to alter how people view death, by portraying two contorted, falling, decaying horses. The green horse symbolizes our remains when we pass and the purple horse symbolising what we take with us, such as our reputation, actions, soul and secrets. The black stringy blood connecting the horses symbolises the question of an afterlife.