11-20-2023, 11:28 PM
Our Blessed Lady of Sorrows Church - October 13, 1978.
A discovery was made in late afternoon. The scene - macabre. Father Merrick’s body
was found in a confessional. The walls and floor of the booth were bathed in blood.
The mutilation was brutal, unbridled, sadistic. His throat had been cut - ear to ear, tongue
removed at the root. His genitals had also been taken. An act of dark but deliberate intent.
Smatterings of blood, tiny and few, led to the prayer box wherein a clear plastic bag was
found containing the missing parts. Sticking to the outside of the bag - a note:
“He who sins with his mouth and offends with his flesh shall be delivered of those things
that so easily beset and betray.”
An unnerving illness of panic was set in place. This would not be the last incident of its kind.
https://imgur.com/B8qkUN3
"Unburdened" - First in the three-part series 'Carnelian'.
Mixed media on plywood. My 136th painting.
A discovery was made in late afternoon. The scene - macabre. Father Merrick’s body
was found in a confessional. The walls and floor of the booth were bathed in blood.
The mutilation was brutal, unbridled, sadistic. His throat had been cut - ear to ear, tongue
removed at the root. His genitals had also been taken. An act of dark but deliberate intent.
Smatterings of blood, tiny and few, led to the prayer box wherein a clear plastic bag was
found containing the missing parts. Sticking to the outside of the bag - a note:
“He who sins with his mouth and offends with his flesh shall be delivered of those things
that so easily beset and betray.”
An unnerving illness of panic was set in place. This would not be the last incident of its kind.
https://imgur.com/B8qkUN3
"Unburdened" - First in the three-part series 'Carnelian'.
Mixed media on plywood. My 136th painting.
