Adam Fieled (Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, USA): "Superimposition"

When Mary painted the two faces, mine and Abby’s,
superimposed, against the sickliest, dullest earth-tone
background color-grid imaginable (puke green, also, putting
in a queasy appearance), it was a new, metaphysical
racket for her as a painter. Abby and I had done it,
were consummated. Mary’s response was to punish us,
demonstrate the monstrosity of our perversion. She
was, as we could only have half-known, extremely hurt.
Her delicate sense of balance registered that she had trusted
us, expected we would maintain reasonable boundaries.
With our unfreeze, a clown-mask face for us. In East Falls,
Mary was trapped into a compromised position. Her family
had generated an unacceptable position for her, placed
in a pathetic tryst with a cold curmudgeon. Purgatory.

© Adam Fieled 2026