The wealth of detail that you: The wealth of detail that you provide makes for a rather intense reading experience: that is, it feels like I am present at the auction, then present during the painting's composition, and attempting, of myself, to solve the identity questions. Your words' have a good compositional tone, and functions at that best level where the reader's attention is completely on the narrative and not on how the narrative is being presented.
Thank you for your piercing: Thank you for your piercing and insightful reflections on the fallacies consciousness swallows and struggles with while it could find peace if it would "accept itself for what it is". Always an honor when you stop by with words of life-altering wisdom.
I am sorry for my delay in: I am sorry for my delay in commenting on this; I am ill today, and have gotten a late start to my routine. I am so very grateful for, and flattered in the most delighted and delightful way by, this poem. I really like the imagery of the poem, and of the lines in the author notes secition. Thank you so very much for the poem, and for the comment on my poem, too.
Insane how we have strayed so: Insane how we have strayed so far from pure, natural state, that we delude ourselves into thinking "a better form of now" means we must firstly meet "a gateway to the Otherworld..." When will consciousness triumph over its crippling insecurities and self-doubt, and accept itself for what it is? While the farmers in the garden sweat to feed eternity, as it is and always will be.