Lucas Briand

Lucas Briand's life revolved around two essential pivots, the insoluble value of traditional hierarchical social organization and, most stridently, the belief in Christ's redemption of mankind through the architecture of sin-removal. The fascinating circumnavigation between these two poles is what makes his life story such a constant source of smirking bemusement.

As a youth, Lucas was averse to speaking or, in truth, any manner of exrapolating his inner thoughts -- which he later referred to as "a garden of luminaries, each one stalking the next"; such an obvious commmunicative disorder led his wealthy parents to procure for him the most advanced psychological treatement available at the the time; the barbarous rituals of electro-shock therapy and eventual lobotomization.

Addisson in Nantes, France, 1962.

Desiderata

As a child, Lucas was made to pray, very much against his will.