The 7 Deadly Sins of Creativity
Hopefully, my work should speak for itself, but in case it dosent;
The idea with the imagery obviously revolves around creativity, when I think of creativity, I think of color. Black therefore would be the absence of such. There is an article that talks about the 7 deadly sins of creativity.
I wanted to portray that imagery with a skull and a gun, very visually communicative of agents of death, but also the Rorschach which to me, symbolizes the mind, the one enemy of creativity that all the “7 sins” had in common. The Rorschach is very particular in the american psychological sense, it results in judgement based on what your creative mind sees within the gestalt forms, which is either “normal” or “abnormal” While it activates the creative mind, at the same time it is with the expectation to creatie something that fits the socially acceptable norm.
Therefore, the mind is the greatest enemy of creativity itself. That’s why the skull is “splitting” as if to within that creative potential, release the true form of creativity. Color in its most vibrant forms, from the absence of.
Also its kind of symbolic to me, for what meditation does for me. My creativity is able to break from out of that dogma barrier.
*I’ll be adding photos to this later, I’m creating a series of images.