Minimal Man Loneliness

Extracted from Minimal Man s The Shroud Of LP. Conceived, recorded, and produced by Patrick Miller, 1981. The critic Neil Strauss, in his New York Timespublished obituary recalls of Miller s signature eyeless paintings: They were all variations on one image: a featureless head or mask, usually wrapped in strips of bandages that were peeling off to reveal a discolored, decomposed face. It was a selfportrait. It wasn t even a mask; it was what lay beneath the mask a paranoid, dark, disturbed shell of a human