#bc. you cannot tell me that armand didn't pick this out in the 70s while in the throes of the DM era

[the-crooked-library]

Personally, what I love the most about IWTV is the layers of intent behind every detail we see on the screen. The series is extremely visually rich, and I think I lost my mind a little when I saw the Bacon triptych that Armand and Louis are selling in episode 1.

This triptych is Bacon's interpretation of the Mocking of Christ; it depicts three figures at the base of the Crucifixion, jeering. We see it in Dubai - where, notably, three of our main characters are conducting an interview that largely ends up dissecting (and, in a great part, ridiculing and condemning) a conspicuously absent fourth.

The fourth that is, explicitly, often depicted as both a parallel and opposite of Christ.

And here's a fascinating detail about the Bacon triptych: two of the figures are sightless.

Do you see it? Do you see it?..