I think preserving a painting is not a good idea. You know, nothing can actually be preserved. Everything occasionally disappears, even our universe will. Soon. So don’t preserve it - by all means, you should burn it, accelerate the process of decay, destroy its essence. Forever, but the atoms that form the painting will continue their existence, and they will be A reminder of what it once was, even though it will be long gone. They will “remember” the painting, however, until the world disappears and becomes nothing, null, halo, the limbo.
- I wonder what would happen to the aura of the painting, then. Does it vanish with the recognizable features, too? Or does it stay the same? Hmm...
- I think remembering the paintings is the best way to preserve. The amount of times I had erotic dreams with Caravaggio paintings. <3