04-29-2023, 06:58 PM
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May 28, 1991 - Tuscola, Texas.
The claustrophobic trail opened to a modest clearing amidst the densely wooded area. Five bodies.
Secured to a long wooden bench by large rusty spikes - one through each thigh. Wrists and ankles
lashed tightly with barbed wire.
Each body decapitated, heads in their laps. The corpses were burned down to the muscle, the heads
untouched by fire. Then, the eerie feeling of being watched.
It was the heads - the eyes were still intact. With a closer look, a more disturbing element introduced
itself - each forehead had a word carved into it. Those words formed a sentence: “We died for our sins.”
A pattern was emerging.
"In the Cedars" - Third in the five-part series 'Bodies'.
Mixed media on plywood. My 118th painting.
May 28, 1991 - Tuscola, Texas.
The claustrophobic trail opened to a modest clearing amidst the densely wooded area. Five bodies.
Secured to a long wooden bench by large rusty spikes - one through each thigh. Wrists and ankles
lashed tightly with barbed wire.
Each body decapitated, heads in their laps. The corpses were burned down to the muscle, the heads
untouched by fire. Then, the eerie feeling of being watched.
It was the heads - the eyes were still intact. With a closer look, a more disturbing element introduced
itself - each forehead had a word carved into it. Those words formed a sentence: “We died for our sins.”
A pattern was emerging.
"In the Cedars" - Third in the five-part series 'Bodies'.
Mixed media on plywood. My 118th painting.
