/lit/ - Literature

i've been playing with the idea of several paintings in a sort of classic post-postmodern style based on some of Joseph Conrads texts for a few months now, the main one being the Judea from Youth burning down on the high sea.
The main take-away from postmodernists (or atleast my wikipedia tier understanding of them) would be that the painting is self-conscious. While the postmodern self-awareness is in large parts the whole thing that it is about, like the pipe that says this isnt a pipe, thats about it in terms of what it has to offer, this new thing would be willing to go further and actually make aesthetic use of that self-awareness. How?
The most obvious way would be in figurativly breaking the frame. Imagine something like a vignette or a gradient with a point or line that has the highest resolution/detail and the further out you go the more detail it loses/ unfocused it gets, similar to a camera/ transparent it turns (could be possible if you print on a transparent plastic foil or sheet)/ straight up reduces itself to line-art. This way there's also the possibility of working with the colour of the walls in the art gallery itself. To go back to the example above imagine a light blue wall that, except for the change in elevation, transition into the sky and sea blue.
Or another example from Heart of Darkness, at the entry to the colonial company with the two old women dressed in black. Imagine these two figures sitting in front of massive greek orders by the street at the bottom of the image, all in the lowest 20-30% of the picture and these orders going all the way up to the very top, except on the way they lose their outline and seamlessly integrate into the cloudy sky.
When it comes to the themes the answer is simple: death and decline. The ship is burning out, the hags sit there like the Fates with their yarn.
Alltogether you'd end up with something beatiful in the classic sense but also jaded and fading, a sarcastic revival of sorts, fitting for the end of modernity