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A crime within a crime, inhuman&#8230; an illegal plague which afflicts us. &nbsp; Cruel and brutal torture. A young man screams, blindfolded&#8230; agitated dogs and other animals lunge at the body&#8230; a naked man, hooded, also blindfolded. The torture continues. &nbsp; I try to draw the massacre. Everything the color of the earth, the central figure in purple, the torture victim in black. A large pair of scissors at his head. Too &#8220;literary&#8221; perhaps, too descriptive&#8230; Will I manage to make my style, my trade, recognizable? I must soften the brutality of the message, while remaining faithful to&#8230; Pozzati&#8230; even though barbarism is not part of my being. I can no longer cling to irony or elegance&#8230; it is catastrophic, unsettling, tragic, and the figures are born from a ferrous black. Two large paintings that will not open a long cycle, because these acts of barbarism, seen in the media, must no longer be seen, even if they are only concealed. Another bandaged figure, the torturer, a mannequin with no arms and a hood he wears like a beard; in the middle, a kind of black puppet on a pedestal, with electrical wires dangling from his hands&#8230; digital signals. Again white scissors, arrow, dagger. I try another, smaller: entirely in pyrographed skin-leather. &nbsp; I smell the foul odor of the skin burning on the pyrography&#8230; it is nauseating&#8230; a demonic tattoo. &nbsp; The screaming boy is still there, another is on his knees, a monkey, another beast, a head almost skull-like, a puppet with long teeth&#8230; all superimposed, the mark engraved on the skin confuses the various forms&#8230; only the scissors are recognizable, open ready to strike. &nbsp; TOR-TURE&#8230; torture&#8230; the painting is torture. As I paint I have an awareness of pain. How can we paint the drama of torture in a &#8220;low voice&#8221;? A scream strangled on the last bristle of the brush. I can add no fantasy to these ghosts&#8230; the facts are there, so cruel I can add nothing more. We need only watch&#8230; draw&#8230; anguish merges with the sign&#8230; everything is reduced to tragedy&#8230; a tragedy the painter can not obliterate. These images do not evoke silence, but an irritation that causes sickness and malaise. 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