ARTIST STATEMENT
From the moment we’re born, we have ideals thrust upon us about purity and goodness. Can you wake up each day and without a doubt say you’ve lived a life devoid of sin? That every thought you’ve had and thing you’ve done has been in the service of living a virtuous life? Conforming to these ideals becomes such an internalised struggle. We internalise the worst elements of ourselves. The Origin of Sin represents our greatest vices, the seven deadly sins, physically manifested as a childhood home: the place we first learn to internalise these faults until they overpower us.
ARTWORK PROCESS
Childlike chalk pastel sketches of the ‘conventional’ and crudely drawn pictures to represent innocence, youth and growing up
Ignites a sense of nostalgia. Inspired by class activity where students were asked to draw a ‘home’
Childlike ideas of home conflicting with dilapidated, sorrowful idea of ‘home’ that is created as we begin to become aware of our faults and how we break away from the ‘ideal’ version of ourselves
By using childlike sketches and the nostalgic imagery of a dollhouse, the audience can be transported to their youth: the place where so many of the limiting ideals and restrictions
