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A cinematic, painterly oil painting set inside a small presbytery in 1930s Dust Bowl America. The interior is dim and austere, lit by flickering candles that cast warm but uneasy amber light on worn wooden pews, bare walls, and a large wooden cross with a simple altar looms in the background, partially obscured. In the foreground, a close-up of Brother Justin kneels beside an elderly woman. He is a tall, lean evangelical minister in his early thirties, with neatly combed dark hair, a long angular face, and pale, severe features. He wears a dark clerical suit with a high collar. His posture is composed but tense, hands raised above the woman's head, in prayer — as if he himself does not yet understand what is happening. The woman kneels opposite him, clutching a worn Bible tightly to her chest, the word “BIBLE” clearly visible on the cover. Her face is twisted in terror and shock as coins begin to spill uncontrollably from her open mouth, clattering onto the wooden floor. Her eyes are wide, horrified, and pleading. Brother Justin is in shock, revealing the first emergence of his dark gift. His expression is not cruel, but stunned and inward, as though he is witnessing something God has forced him to see. The environment remains untouched: nothing breaks, no object decays. The miracle manifests entirely through revelation and exposure, not destruction. The contrast between the quiet prayer posture and the grotesque confession creates a deeply unsettling atmosphere. The brushwork is textured and restrained, emphasizing faces, candlelight, smoke, and falling coins. The color palette is muted — browns, sepias, dirty golds — evoking moral rot beneath religious solemnity. The mood is intimate, disturbing, and prophetic: the moment a man realizes he can see sin made visible.
A dramatic, oil painting-style image depicts a priest with dark hair in a black cassock with a white clerical collar. He has a concerned or pained expression and is placing his right hand on the head of an elderly woman. The woman has disheveled white hair and a look of anguish on her face, with wide eyes and an open mouth from which a stream of gold coins cascades out. Her skin appears weathered and dirty, and some coins are clinging to her facial features and hair. Her left hand clutches a dark book with the word "BIBLE" clearly visible on the cover in gold lettering. The background is dimly lit with a dark, textured wall, and several flickering candles provide warm light. A dark cross is visible in the upper right background. The overall color palette is dark and somber, with rich browns, blacks, and golden accents from the coins and candlelight creating a Rembrandt-like effect.
Inside the small presbytery, Brother Justin's dark gift is revealing as the money the money the woman stole manifested in a pure terror. His first real emergence of his power as God has forced him to see. Inspired by 1930s Dust Bowl, Americana, Carnival. By Isobel Blundell
