THE 7 DEADLY SINS
Lust:
To be so enticed with someone that your infatuation with them blinds you to your care for them. Pushing the boundaries of that person, and through the high of validation of that person. This is not real care and love but rather scratching the itch of the addiction that is love, infatuation, and sometimes sex. I wanted to exemplify this with bodies, assault, and fake love.
Gluttony:
Over-indulgence of something in your life that harms you over time. Feeling powerless to the addiction to a physical object and succumbing to the power of this object.
Greed:
over-desire for the inordinate desire to acquire or possess more than one needs and feel validated through physical objects and wealth. To feel esteemed and validated by arbitrary items of wealth.
Wrath:
the desire for the destruction of things. Wanting relationships, objects, cultures, communities, and livelihoods to be destroyed and ended with a desire for pain and suffering to get there.
Sloth:
to be so overindulged with physical objects that depression and sadness kick into haunting and overwhelming feelings.
Envy:
To be so wrapped up in what other people have that it takes away from your ability to be grateful for what you have. The idea that you are not or ever enough with the cards you are dealt.
Pride:
That you are better, more deserving, and thinking highly of yourself based on physical objects, status, and wealth.
With this project, I intended to exemplify through visual photographic documentation, each of the 7 deadly sins. To modernize each of the sins, I wanted to explain how each sin, at its core, relates to something to do with human suffering within human existence outside of the religious aspect that it was derived from.
Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Pride, Wrath,
The sins were derived from Roman Catholic Theology and were initially thought of as vices or wicked thoughts that one would exhibit. It was then derived and translated as written sins under Pope Gregory I.
For my project here I want to escape the enclosure of the organized catholic religion of these sins and make them all have an overarching theme of desire. In Buddhist ideas, desire is the root cause of pain and suffering and to detach from earthly desires is the key to enlightenment.
