Salome is displayed to gratify whatever gaze 'dangles against' the painting (or the text): the unseen gaze of which the unseeing head is the instrument.
If only we lacked sight and knowledge so as to see, so as to know, unseeing and unknowing, that which lies beyond all vision and knowledge.
In our opinion some form of compulsion ought to be introduced so that reluctant and backward local authorities, the timid and the unseeing local authorities, should be forced to act.
In particular, the uplifted, unseeing face, and the hand, now even more tense and strained, are modelled in three dimensions and painted shiny black.
The result is the development of an eye, isolated and unseeing, in the belly of the embryo.
