BRIAN Laundrie left behind glimpses into his psyche through his artwork, including a set of prints featuring a cartoon woman’s mouth being smothered in blood red paint.
In an Instagram snap posted last year, the late ex-fiance of Gabby Petito exhibits multiple black-and-white lino cut prints of a Sleeping Beauty look alike character with red paint muzzling her mouth strewn next to a paperback book of author Chuck Palahniuk's book Lullaby.
He captioned the image: “Reading is different than any other consumption of media, it takes more effort that staring at a screen half alive, it allows you to use your brain rather than melt it, and there is no author more stimulation to me than@chuckpalahniuk #linocut #linocutprint #lullaby #invisiblemonsters #bookstagram #art.”
Lullaby is a horror-satire novel published in 2002.
It tells the story of journalist Carl Streator, who is writing an article about crib death when it dawns on him the odd connection between the deaths of the babies and those of his own wife and infant.
He then finds out that his wife and child had died after he read them a "culling song" from a book.
Unintentionally, he memorizes the rhyme and becomes a serial killer who kills people over minor annoyances.
Two weeks ago, one online commenter dug into Laundrie, suggesting the cartoon female-vandalizing prints elicit the young man's darkness.
“He's so very intentional,” the post reads. “This was no accident.”
DARK ART
Web sleuths have been poring over Laundrie’s artworks ever since 22-year-old Gabby went missing during the couple’s cross-country van-life adventure.
They put society comforts on hold, hitting the road on July 2 in Gabby’s white 2012 Ford Transit Connect from their home in North Port, Florida, to tour the country's national parks, stopping in Kansas, Colorado, and Utah along the way.
Only Brian returned alone in Gabby’s van back to Florida – without Gabby on September 1.
There other provocative hand-drawn images posted by Laundrie to his Instagram page @bizarre_design_ months before the engaged couple embarked on their road trip.
One posted on July 8, 2020, shows what appears to be a man wearing a wolf mask, sat in a chair and holding a blood-soaked knife, with red splatters up his arms and legs.
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