SEVEN DEADLY SINS
Similar to my printmaking practice, the drawing project of the final year of my BFA at NAS explores and juxtaposes the difference between beliefs and rituals of today with those at the times of the renaissance. While the belief and fear of the seven deadly sins no longer holds as much stock, the sins themselves are still extremely prevalent in contemporary society, simply embodied in a different way.
Each work is a watercolour monotype with coloured pencil.
The abstract watercolour monotype is the result of tracing the shapes found in a Pieter Bruegel the Elder print depicting that particular sin, while the pencil represents the contemporary example of the sin.
The colours were informed by what wikipedia said was associated with each sin. I found it quite ironic that wikipedia and the internet is what informs us now instead of the bible-even about matters related to Christian ideals.
Who knows if the information was correct? The blind trust in things we read on the internet is similar to the trust people had and still have today in the word of the bible. While we seem to be under the impression that society has advanced since the time of Bruegel in the 1500’s, we are still guilty of the same sins and continue to have a blind faith.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (printed by Pieter van der Heyden), Wrath, 1558, engraving, 22.5 x 29.4cm
