Stigmata: An Artist's Journey of the Mind

"This is the story of a mind in peril and the beauty of its path to wellness and accomplishment." So begins this captivating informal pictorial biography of a talented but undiscovered artist, Jeremias Cecil Gomez, and his creative life paralleling a life plagued by tragedy and mental illness. Along with the terrible stigma and shame that mental illness often brings with it, Gomez bears disfiguring scarring on his right arm and chest from an accident in his infancy. But these misfortunes ha...