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Concave Surfaces


Distort, lie, and amplify.

 

They show us the center,
and hide the edges.
The center is framed,
by the rest,
that is compressed.

 

Compressed but not invisible
to other sources of concavity.
Where the compressed
becomes the selfish
centers.

 

No one surface
will amplify the same
image, object, person.

 

Unless you change
perspective.

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