At Chartres

Who wielded the chisel at the left portal, south porch, the scene of Theo chained, naked to the waist, leaning in to the brutal hand of what looks to be an even younger boy? What man carved stone to mimic flesh as it would look inside the torture of its flensing? How he must have held the scene in his own mind, thought it back to the act itself, modeling the lines with his own limbs so he would know both how a body bends in pain, and how a hand extends the flayer’s rake.