Here, at five in the morning, everything is different. The sound of the piercing wind and the shifting of lifeless feet echo through a silent city.
I painted this when everything was reduced to pain, and I had set an alarm for five in the morning—for someone who was never going to be there again. Someone who had fought for a new and free world, only to face nothing but an ending at the gallows.
Here, it is not suicide but execution—one without a count.