She walked up to the painting. Darkness, the angry citizenry of the day. Dark night, the assassinated bodies of two politicians, brothers, hanging from a crude scaffold.
The brothers were murdered, by plan, then carried to the scaffold to be hanged, for all to see. Their bodies rendered pale in shadow with blood pooling, the outside made into a dark interior violence. The brothers are flayed, slit from neck to crotch. All is smoke dark onyx night around them. Green black on that summer day, August 20 – the day they killed the De Witt brothers. Johan and Cornelis.
Economic austerity, country feeling attacked, panic among the people, premeditated murder. Jan de Baen the artist did not spare us the blood of blood politics.
The Surf Doctor acknowledged Vivienne Pink’s presence. He stepped
