I actually kind of like it. I'm grateful to still be alive after cancer, and equally grateful I don't have to be performatively "attractive" in the young person sense anymore. It was a burdensome and artificial imposition of a sick society.
What makes the horrific paintings truly horrific to me is the mimicry.
I have written down here by Lacan, “Mimicry reveals something in so far as it is distinct from what might be called an itself that is behind. The effect of mimicry is camouflage.”
The camo here however is terrible because Goya, for example, wants to reveal that something (aging, death)
Fascinating study! Thank you :)
Thank you for reading! I’m glad you found it interesting, it’s something that has been on my mind a lot
I actually kind of like it. I'm grateful to still be alive after cancer, and equally grateful I don't have to be performatively "attractive" in the young person sense anymore. It was a burdensome and artificial imposition of a sick society.
What makes the horrific paintings truly horrific to me is the mimicry.
I have written down here by Lacan, “Mimicry reveals something in so far as it is distinct from what might be called an itself that is behind. The effect of mimicry is camouflage.”
The camo here however is terrible because Goya, for example, wants to reveal that something (aging, death)