"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time"

Hello, these are pictures of paper with words on them from the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle. I went there the other day and thoroughly enjoyed it, I bought a badge with a painting of a cat on and a ring with a painting of a lady in. Getting all cultural. No, seriously, I have a real thing for art galleries and museums (just to complete the package I'll say now that I also love word searches and quizzes) Anyway, I was never into fancy, biblical, renaissance art until we went to the Edinburgh gallery on the art trip and I spent four hours staring in amazement at all these massive, perfect, breath taking paintings that were so full of stuff going on but every bit of it was immaculate, even the shadows and the leaves, it was incredible. And now I'm a fan.

In reference to the first lot of photos though, I really like interactional art where people can get involved and write things down cause you know that that's honest and real, plus some of them are just funny. These are some renaissance artists I discovered called Arthur Hughes and John William Waterhouse and took a shine to...

Greed for wealth

So I've been dressing up my mannequin as the seven deadly sins for part of my new art project. I bought her from Camden Market the day after I saw Pulp so could only name her one thing: Candida (because she's Pulp's keyboardist) It was really fun and these lot demonstrate a greed for wealth and jewels, also known as avarice or a sin of excess. This could include disloyalty, deliberate betrayal, treason or theft, usually for personal gain such as hoarding goods and materials.

Sloth

   

  

These are my favourite photos of the lot, they actually make my bed look even comfier and it was easy to all set up and everything. She looks like she's day dreaming, it's quite creepy really. Although the face looks unhappy in all the photos, which is really good in helping demonstrate that committing sinful acts cannot make you happy or fulfilled, her expression almost seems to change with every set of outfits and in this one the eyes seem more sleepy. No wonder, it was a big few days and she'd been through a lot, I photographed her in a building site in the rain a few weeks before and now I plan to collage her, blimey!

     

Gluttony

 

Poor thing ended up in the kitchen sink with no legs, surrounded by rum and dairy lee dunkers.

Anyway, I see gluttony as the excessive intake of food and drink products: fast food, meat, coke a cola, alcohol, maybe even drugs. Consuming more than necessary and becoming addicted to the temptations of our modern world: consumerism, advertisement, want, 

Wrath

  

Wrath, anger, violence, offence, tension, rage, threat, harm, aggression, fury,

"We can only apply pressure against our anger for a certain amount of time until it explodes"

I did initially incorporate devil horns and a pitchfork but thought she looked a bit silly so let the focus turn to body language by just putting her hands up instead, which I think looks better. The first picture at the top is probably my favourite from the whole bunch cause although it's pretty simple I think it might be one of the most effective because of that.