Censored Works

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One of these paintings has been deconstructed both physically and critically and only a trace remains. One of these paintings has been edited to conceal offensive symbols of the libido.  One of these paintings has been sequestered to the corner of the studio and covered with a drape. One of these paintings no longer exists. It cannot be shown since it has not been documented and so in reality, virtual or otherwise, does not exist.  None of these paintings are in galleries or exhibitions or collections or hanging on a wall. None of these paintings are in coffee shops or furniture stores as that would deprivilege them far more than being in a landfill or a thrift store or hanging on a wall with other objects of decor. However, they are now published as images.  If you want to devalue or derealise something into a mere image, including your life, then publish it. "Laisse du vieux Platon se froncer l'oeil austère."

Derealisation is a term used to describe the feeling that life is an illusion, an image, thus not real. Depersonalisation similarly (but on a personal level obviously) is a term used to describe the feeling that one is not real in a not real world, that one is an image in an imaginary world.  In both cases, derealisation and depersonalization may be warning signs of an incipient schizoid personality disorder. Perhaps, though, if one is incipient for enough life-times one might have the hope of becoming really-real, or really-non-real, in the really-real or really-non-real world and in one of these cases one is not crazy but religious, or in more New Age terms, spiritual, or maybe even enlightened in  the modernist sense of the word. To awaken, does one take the red pill or the blue pill, Orpheus or Morpheus? Whatever the case, it is better to be an artist as one can legitimatize feeling unwell with existence and then deal with it on its own absurd terms without all the guilt of karma,  the respect of others, pills, dialectics, and other original sins..."Laisse du vieux Platon se froncer l'oeil austère."