Lust was a particularly challenging sin. Most things I came up with were too racy for the feeling that I wanted. I felt like the image of lust should represent the pain and unfairness that occurs when lust goes unbridled. Particularly with regards to children. Lust most often happens in the dark. Light is abhorred by lust. It prefers the darkness. I drew some creep eyes then cut a hole in the paper for eyes and mounted them on the reverse. It gives the impression he is watching from a hiding place. What he is looking at is represented by a little girl’s doll. His identity is obscured. The space is dark and threatening. It is a hard portrait to look at but one that makes you very aware of the danger and the sin and the victim. Lust is ugly scary and always a deadly sin.
