Blood.

Fra Angelico's Christ Crowned with Thorns. One of the most unsettling paintings of Christ I've ever seen. I could not stop looking at it. A day later it hasn't let go of me. Every piece of art and music I've experienced in the last two days seems like the weakest of water. Sometimes an artist finds the very core of something. This is one of those paintings.


And I have to say that later it made me think of how weak Mel Gibson's piece of anti-semitic idol worship was. Damn. That shit made me crazy then, and it makes me crazy now that so many couldn't see through to the hate hiding in all those well-lit shadows. I'm still down with Hitch's perspective on it. While Mel the fascist hypocrite's foray into Christic representation was filled with fear, the Fra Angelico painting is nothing but unflinching love.