A sculpture with a story

(Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff)

By Globe Staff

It's a striking sculpture with a terrible story. An artifact of happier times for two people who would end up entangled in tragedy.

Luis Marquez made this artwork in Terri Werner's class at the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, a school spokeswoman said today. The sculpture was displayed in a show at the Mall at Chestnut Hill in 2001. A Globe photographer took a picture of it for a story on the show.

Marquez, 26, was charged this week with murdering Werner, 56, of Middleborough when she visited his home in Brighton. It was a shocking end to a yearslong friendship between the two, the Globe reported today.

The piece provokes questions. What did the student and teacher talk about when it was made? Did she think he had talent? Is it a cast of Marquez's face? Who added the bold, warpaint-like stripes?

Meanwhile, the overarching question remains: What went wrong?

"He loved Terri dearly," Werner's mother, Marilyn, 83, said in an interview Wednesday from her home in Washington state. "Something must have snapped. He wouldn't hurt anything."

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