The power of horror is contagious. It figures but it disfigures as well: the source of a resurgence in our representations that cut through the forms, volumes, contours to expose the pulsing flesh. From disfiguration to expressionism, to abstraction, to minimalism—and back.
... pain has neither subject nor object: between the two, it corrupts and spreads.
Have you ever noticed how a mask, a false face, terrifies young children, even when its features are laughing? No doubt that's because decapitation is intrinsically implied.
The technology changes; voyeurism itself never ceases to paint, sculpt, photograph.
Because such is the power of horror: it subjugates, it gains a following, it creates sects.
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