THE INDEX OF INTERRUPTED SINS

from "The Index of Interrupted Sins"

El Índice de Pecados Interrumpidos, the small diary found in Micah Carpentier’s Havana studio after he died is one of many diaries kept by this unusual artist. Together with The Book of Muffled Cries and Mis Divorcios, the Pecados is a highly stylized, idiosyncratic document of human weakness and moral frailty. An amateur philologist, Carpentier’s workable knowledge of biblical Hebrew allowed him to delve into the Iron Age conflation of sin with crime. As a lifelong citizen of communist Cuba, the resonances were clear.

The images above are from the section entitled Decalogue.