development for a painting that pulls concepts from literature. This one is based on Edgar Allan Poe's "A Tell Tale Heart". The narrator is unreliable, claiming sanity as he recalls his obsession with an old man's blind eye and his heartbeat. The "eye" which drives him to murder the old man is actually him, the "I". This story also explores the relationship between the imagined and the scientific.
"'Villains!' I shrieked, 'dissemble no more! I admit the deed! - tear up the planks! - here, here! - it is the beating of his hideous heart!'"
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