Living Hell | 現世地獄

Living Hell
2015-2016
indian ink and colour pencil on paper
38 x 28 cm each (7 in a set)

Living Hell (7) - Lucifer 現世地獄 (7) - 路西法
Living Hell (6) - Leviathan 現世地獄 (6) - 利維坦 
Living Hell (5) - Beelzebub 現世地獄 (5) - 巴力西卜
Living Hell (4) - Mammon 現世地獄 (4) - 瑪門
Living Hell (3) - Samael 現世地獄 (3) - 薩麥爾
Living Hell (2) - Asmodeus 現世地獄 (2) - 阿斯摩太
Living Hell (1) - Belphegor 現世地獄 (1) - 貝爾芬格

This series of artwork is including seven drawings, I try to depict Seven Princes of Hell in each drawing, reflecting the seven deadly sins in Roman Catholic Church. They are Lucifer (Pride), Leviathan (Envy), Beelzebub (Gluttony), Mammon(Greed), Samael(Wrath), Asmodeus (Lust) and Belphegor (Sloth). In each of the drawings, I also try to link up the seven chakras from India with the seven deadly sins. They are Sahasrara, Ajna, Vishuddha, Anahata, Manipura, Svadhishthana and Muladhara. Chakra is a neutral system inside everybody. However, if not able to control the usage of the chakras, it would cause pain or even become devilish. I think people believe that no matter what they do now, the only judgment of penalties would be made after their own deaths. But I believe if we were not able to control our bad habits, we would be in hell already.​

這系列作品由七張畫作所組成，每一張作品描繪一位地獄七君主，相對於羅馬天主教中的七宗罪，分別為路西法（傲慢），利維坦（嫉妒），巴力西卜（暴食），瑪門（貪婪），薩麥爾（憤怒），阿斯摩太（淫慾），貝爾芬格（懶惰）。而在每一張作品中，我試圖把印度中的七大脈輪跟七宗罪聯繫上，七大脈輪分別為頂輪，眉間輪，喉輪，心輪，太陽神經叢輪，臍輪，海底輪。每個人都有這七個脈輪藏在身體裡，本來屬於中性，可是過份或缺乏使用某一個脈輪，無法做到收放自如，便會做成痛苦，甚至被惡習牽扯。我認為很多人都相信在生時胡作非為，都是在死後才得到審判而下地獄受苦，但我相信其實在現世中，約過度受制於一些劣習，那很有可能已經在地獄之中，不能自拔。
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