This diary involves art, and this image is from the Mona Lisa.
Hello!
Welcome to another Tuesday.
I have been using some of my books to serve as the topics for my diaries lately.
This week, I am using two books, both written by my sister, Lois Gibson.
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One book is called Faces of Evil.
The other is called Forensic Art Essentials.
First, a little about my sister:
en.wikipedia.org/…
Lois Gibson (born c. 1950)[citation needed] is an American forensic artist who holds a 2017 Guinness World Record for most identifications by a forensic artist.[1][2] She also drew the first forensic sketch shown on America's Most Wanted, which helped identify the suspect and solve the case.[3]
Gibson decided to become a forensic artist after being assaulted and nearly killed when she was 21 and living in Los Angeles.[1]
More than once, Lois told me that story.
And that story is in Chapter 2 of Faces of Evil.
Okay, I just now read most of that chapter.
Brutal.
To put things in perspective, all three of my older sisters had been raped, as well as my second wife, Tonia.
That does not make any one rape any less brutal, but I need to step back a little, to avoid getting too depressed right now.
The rest of that book gives some cases that were solved by my sister’s sketches.
Very dramatic, of course.
Lois’s other book, Forensic Art Essentials, is, as I understand, a textbook on how to do that job, the job of drawing a sketch from the description of a witness.
One important point about that process is that nearly every witness says, “I do not remember what he looks like.”
Seems to me, that is because the witness cannot conjure up a picture in their mind’s eye.
But a good forensic artist has methods that gradually produces a sketch.
Lois said that often the witness freaks out with fear when she shows them the sketch.
“That’s him!”
I truly have not read either book in full, just a little skimming.
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So, you can easily buy that book and read it all for yourself.
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If you want that book, maybe you can find it on some other dot com site.
There are more videos about Lois at YouTube, if you want to search for them and watch them.
Well, this process has been harder for me than I thought it would be.
Stay safe.
Hugs.
