I N F E R N U M

Personal.
This one was far out of my comfort zone, but I wanted to try a multifigure piece.
I used different composition techniques and even though the outcome is not as I envisioned it, I still learned a lot nonetheless.

About this Illustration:

The human mind and the complex facets of a culture influence our perception of a paradigm. The concept of an ideal to live by, can be the rise and fall of a single individual or a whole culture. I intentionally used strong symbolism through polarization of the "good" and the "evil". There is no good and evil, but we live by those concepts. Those concepts blind the individual from a greater perception , which is the reason why the figure on the ground with the sword is facing away from the evil which is about to consume him. Blindness and the radical glorification of anything narrows the view on something different, and it also influences your surroundings, no matter what the source of it is. I wanted to create tension between the other figures, which reach out to the main person, with the belief, that his action would influence their fate , even though they are the ones who are the fuel for keeping a certain perception alive. This creates some sort of duality between belief, action and the consequence.