To awaken all your senses, and achieve that sense of peace one needs to be freed from one's own ego. The ego ties you down to society and our reality as we know it. And once you are free from your ego, you reach your soul and connect with who you really are which would be beautiful. But we all have our egos firmly ingrained, and what is the ego made of? I figure, the seven deadly sins we are all so familiar with are pretty much the vices that make up our ego and obsession with self.
So I decide to put a character to each of these seven sins. To each character, there is so much emotion, and so much detail that had to be looked into for the enormity of the feeling to set in. It was a really long, but fully satisfying project.
So I decide to put a character to each of these seven sins. To each character, there is so much emotion, and so much detail that had to be looked into for the enormity of the feeling to set in. It was a really long, but fully satisfying project.
Envy tears apart the soul leaving only fragments behind in fiery emotion. I see the ruthless vulture,the enormity of the sea as part of the energy forces that would exist in a creature called envy.
Pride is the fairy that is trapped by her own obsession with self. She is beautiful but the flowers that grow on her are prickly and the mushrooms that grow alongside poisonous. She uses her third eye to admire herself in her mirror.
Gluttony takes the shape of a tree, a beautiful tree full of all things beautiful and desirable. the apple hanging from the tree symbolies tempation. Unfortunately gluttony chooses to drink from the tap.
Broken, wanting more and more, shaking with desire, scratching itself, glazed eves and drawing blood with scratching on the wall. A person no longer, a creature now - with or without a soul.
I envisioned lust to take the form of a mermaid, and then I discover that in Greek mythology Siren's wereseductresses of the sea (mermaid-like creatures) who lured sailors with their beautiful voices and music to shipwreck on the rocks. A beautiful, inspiring concidence. The sea adds energy and wild force. The type is literally dripping with desire. And the second mermaid is swept in the throes of passion. Unknown hands reach out from the sea to hold the mermaid's fin.
Though mankind persuades itself that every weed's a rose.Roses, you feel certain, will only smile.
Sloth is that feeling of letharg, of just falling off. with smelly old dead fish and an incomplete life. sloth has simply given up to a life amidst cobwebs.
Wrath. Consumed by its own fury, bigger than itself, and bursting with sheer power. Wrath is greater than a sin, its greater than the ego, It becomes unselfish in its extreme emotion. Somebody once asked me why so many of my characters in this series are skeletal. When I close my eyes and imagine the force of the character, most of the time its no longer human. Its what remains.
