English to Italian Art/Literary Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting

Qui si intende che i segni a matita stanno a simboleggiare l'arco della vita di Martin? Mi sembra che manchi qualcosa nell'originale...

Ecco il contesto:

One intermittently encounters in his art the fearful notion that one might have hoped in vain, intermingled with a longing to shortcut towards a potential afterlife. This conception of death, as something that might affirm or deny a life spent waiting, flickers: it is there, for example, in the knife-edge attitude of My Days Are Counted (2005), wherein pencil marks on a gallery wall equivalence Martin’s span. With, notably, an arbitrary future cut-off point – for who can know? The unknown girdles Martin’s art.