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Acrylics on stretched canvas. 60 x 70 cm. May 2007.

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" Now what you want to get clear is that Pride is essentially competitive - is competitive by its very nature - while the other vices are competitive only, so to speak, by accident. Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. We say that people are proud of being rich, or clever, or good-looking, but they are not. They are proud of being richer, or cleverer, or better-looking than others. If everyone else became equally rich, or clever, or good-looking there would be nothing to be proud about. It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition has gone, pride has gone. That is why I say that Pride is essentially competitive in a way the other vices are not."

CS Lewis, The Great Sin, from "Mere Christianity",1952.

This is the first of a series on the seven capital sins. The eyes are looking exceendingly to the side because of of the competitive nature of Pride, as Lewis explains above; thus, the face of Pride looks so forcefully to what others have that it almost blinds itself. The irises are made with a new kind of paint I found recently: deep gold. It looks really amazing in its liquid form. I decided to have the eyes made of gold as a symbol for money. Pride has no ears because it doesn't care to hear what others have to say. It looks like a mask because none of the sins are really us, they're just a sorry façade.

Description
Acrylics on stretched canvas. 60 x 70 cm. May 2007.

SOLD

" Now what you want to get clear is that Pride is essentially competitive - is competitive by its very nature - while the other vices are competitive only, so to speak, by accident. Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. We say that people are proud of being rich, or clever, or good-looking, but they are not. They are proud of being richer, or cleverer, or better-looking than others. If everyone else became equally rich, or clever, or good-looking there would be nothing to be proud about. It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition has gone, pride has gone. That is why I say that Pride is essentially competitive in a way the other vices are not."

CS Lewis, The Great Sin, from "Mere Christianity",1952.

This is the first of a series on the seven capital sins. The eyes are looking exceendingly to the side because of of the competitive nature of Pride, as Lewis explains above; thus, the face of Pride looks so forcefully to what others have that it almost blinds itself. The irises are made with a new kind of paint I found recently: deep gold. It looks really amazing in its liquid form. I decided to have the eyes made of gold as a symbol for money. Pride has no ears because it doesn't care to hear what others have to say. It looks like a mask because none of the sins are really us, they're just a sorry façade.