18-Euro — Part III/18 (after Goya), 2026
Francisco de Goya, "Yo lo vi" (Plate 44, Los Desastres de la Guerra, c. 1810-1820), as reproduced in Ernst H. Buschbeck, “Francisco de Goya: Die Schrecknisse des Krieges” (Vienna: Phaidon-Verlag, 1937), photographed at Fachbibliothek Kunstgeschichte, Universitätsbibliothek Wien by Shaye Weiss (2026) with a Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro [GIMP 300 DPI raster engine, 50 80g A4 black & white copy shop sheets on 1.5x2.1m 300g drawing paper, paste re-assembly, ballpoint pen, gold ink, silver ink, wax crayons].
"To understand these truly one must focus on the texture of the weave and not on the nature of its components [...] This-here is the weave, and it weaves no boundaries. The right to opacity would not establish autism; it would be the real foundation of Relation, in freedoms." (Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, p. 190) "Transparency no longer seems like the bottom of the mirror in which Western humanity reflected the world in its own image. There is opacity now at the bottom of the mirror..." (Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, p. 111)