This is the first of my Seven Deadly Sins set. I started the idea about a year ago after reading the play Faustus. The personafications of the sins inspired me to create my own versions of them. I left them sit for a while and recently was inspired to revist them.

This is Lechery, or Lust. Of all the sin in the play, it was the only one given a gender. One which transfered over to my version. Lechery has always been defined to me as a physical desire, usually of a sexual nature. I tried to characterize this with me personafication. She plays the seductress. Wrapping her victim in a very physical embrace and drawing him into her cluches.


The Ideas and Symbols:
- The fire in the borders is my little reference to the fires of Hell.
- I forgot at first why I used the purple... but I knew it was something one of my friends had said. Then someone I showed it to described it as purple passion. Normally red is used for passion, but somehow I like the purple.
- The Wheel in the back has one symbol for each sin. Lechery's is the top one. I though the passionate kiss would symbolize the physical desires that Lechery represents.
- The fire in the background orignally was going to be another reference to hell, but I didn't want to overuse that background in the set. Then other people said it represents the burning desire and firery passion.
- The shadow figure represents a human soul being tempted to sin. I left him without details so that I didn't detract attention from the personafied sin.


I will be completing the set with the other six sins. The next one has already been started and is Envy.