THE GREEN JEWELLERY

the red square still in my eyes
I look at you
and find my / your green jewellery
like the emperor’s new clothes
where you might think
you were wearing nothing at all
and exactly that is the beauty of it

(M. Felberbauer)

The Green Jewellery | wood 20x20x1cm, paint, poem, 1987

What you see is not the green jewellery; you will see it only after looking at the pink square for a while.

The complementary colour green will appear and if you look at someone with this afterimage in your eyes, you will project the green jewellery without it being noticed. Neither the person who has been thus adorned nor anyone else can see the green square.

It will fade away with no traces, except in your own memory.