In this part of the painting, there is a fire on a stand and it’s slowly dying, with the carnation next to it. This depicts that along with the carnation, they’re going to both die out soon. The fire is still brightly lit but the height of the flame is slowly growing shorter, showing that life is short and you have to do everything before you die. Below the flame, there seems to be flutes; which could suggest that the death of the person enjoyed music but has come to end his life with the flame slowly dying out.
The single bubble that is floating in the air indicates how fragile life is. The bubble will pop any minute if you are not careful with how you live your life. The bubble is positioned near the flame of the fire and this indicates that it will pop before it could live to it’s fullest. It could also mean that once the bubble is up in the air, the smoke of the fire could pop it but as long as the bubble rose up into the air, it has fulfilled it’s duty and will eventually die along with the carnation, skull and fire that is placed upon the crevices of an arced window.