I long for the days when the boundary between a masterpiece and a monster was so wonderfully thin...

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I remember parading through the cobwebbed galleries of my youth in a patchwork suit tailored for the dead of night. Every elongated limb was a high-fashion grotesque, stitched together from velvet and violence at the seam. Back then, my peculiar figure was hailed as a psychosomatic surrealist dream. Now I just look back and chuckle at the sheer, over-the-top majesty of that horrifying sight. My Basquiat-crowned head was a hyper-stylized masterpiece, painted in strokes that were tragically bold. I posed like an Ernie Barnes dancer, stretching my impossible anatomy down to the very bone. They called me the king of maximalism, reigning from a mismatched, upholstered throne. Frankly, I just wore all those scraps because the autumn air was notoriously cold. I was a highly detailed anomaly wandering through the nostalgic, artificial gloom. The curators would weep over my Halloween couture, calling my tattered aesthetics impossibly chic. It is funny to think I believed I was a visionary instead of a beautifully manic freak. Yet, there is a warmth I miss about commanding every eye in that cavernous room. Yacek Yerka couldn't have drafted a more intricate architecture than my own sewn-on skin. I was a canvas of bleeding colors and jagged crowns, pretending to be a living work of art. Looking at these old portraits, I realize I was merely playing a heavily embellished part. Still, I long for the days when the boundary between a masterpiece and a monster was so wonderfully thin.

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