Martin Gluetch - Fear and Beauty

Man's severity stems from a fear of death.  It is instinctually recognized that becoming a fearful presence is more memorable than being passive.  To be remembered overcomes the fear of absence in death.  It is this stamp on memory, a presence taken as reality that man unconsciously creates in acts of terror.  History also - political regimes, come from the same impetus.  Beauty is more real but more difficult in its superpositional nature, being godsent and inborne.  In this way the fearful spectre is a living reaction against death closed from beauty and is always out of place or obscene.  What is frightening is essentially artificial and birthed from the afraid.


trns. from the German by Frieda Nescht

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