Karl Schmidt-Rotluff, Female Head
1915, woodcut
||Warped|||
And
just
what
Kind
of
Ideas
lurk
behind//
//twist entwined
Seep,
m a lig n ed
Through the crackled minds
of these
Masks, enshrined?
Face the depraved,
and do not succumb,
wrought in wonder,
to the present, warped asunder:
the first layer,
quiescence,
penance,
pensive before some crooked transe,
secluded delusions,
Then the foreboding furrows of
gloom, shock, grief,
the erratic, the exaggerated, estrangement
Contorted
into
vacancy,
vapidity,
vastidity,
and
a
Dark Melancholic,
Fades along towards
transcendence
omniscience,
half-eyed
SCORN
GLARING
from
heights of
New
Modern
Perceptivity (dulled receptivity)
profound subjectivity
splintered,
Intractable inner multitudes,
torrential,
Around a focal despot:
the interior,
everted,
visage
inverted:
blasé violence
& disfigured
silence.