My catholic upbringing made me particularly aware of the presence of the seven deadly sins in life.  Although it wasn’t until I personally experienced the sins first hand that I began to look for prime examples of vanity, lust, greed, anger, envy, sloth, and gluttony in everyday life.  The constant bombardment of media, pop culture, high end fashion and corrupt role models numbs the public to the sins.  Each sin intertwined into one another has seemingly become mainstream, accepted, and forgotten.

My images are a look at human behavior and how I believe an over indulgence of one sin can lead to another sin which in turn can result in the destruction of ones self. My visual “sinners” are all female because I relate to the female more than the male.  This series of work is my journey and explorations into the sins and it’s through my eyes in which the sins are rendered.

I created oil paintings and large scale charcoal drawings depicting each sin.  The series started off as full body poses and as the work progressed the focus turned to the faces of my models.  The use of color contrast varies between each work dependent on what sin is represented.  I based the medium on what would be most effective to display my idea of what the sin actually is.  These pieces of art are my take of a visual modern reminder of each sin in daily life.