Because aerial bombardment was somewhat new. Because humans cannot show themselves to be surprised too much or too often. This could be arrogance of pride but more likely it is a cognitive phenomenon. But perhaps graphic representation of tragedy is passe. Please don't mediate it through a human body that intimately. Painting ceded to photography which ceded to don't even show us. Because an armed culture is a luxury and a screen. Guernica becomes, instead, closer to today, something Boltanski would do. Respectful, less ego. The clothing being lifted over and over by the claw of the machine and dropped from a height onto the ground. The way the simulacra of bodies, the empty clothes, dance as they plummet. This instead of drawing. The self pretending to be removed, pretending not to draw, from what is still drawing on the air, somehow. But it is the otherness drawing. It is the emptiness celebrating itself. A new innocence that is not us. We become leaves of the molting tree. A new innocence that is not human being. The moment preceding and the moment following a human thought.
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