...”Dreher’s repeated examination of the skull is an attempt to face his own sense of mourning, mortality, and shame, as well as quietly resist the personal and collective numbness that afflicted many Germans. Instead of evading his awareness of death, or becoming morbidly fascinated with it, as was Warhol, he looked at an anonymous skull without averting his eyes. He became fascinated with what we became: a skull devoid of flesh, a lifeless thing. He brings his consciousness to bear upon an object that no longer possesses awareness, though it once did.”