Hold Still. A balancing act.

Mono Monday. Still Life. MerrilHope.

This still life is not your typical. 
And my search for its originations surprised me.

'Still-life as an art form first originated from Ancient Egyptian highly codified mortuary rituals. Egyptians at the time believed that objects represented on the walls of a tomb or inside a sarcophagus would accompany the dead in the afterlife.'