Pride 30"x40" acyrlic on canvas (addional 5"x5"x2"canvas block affixed to center)

Pride is a belief in one's own abilities that is so excessive as to deny the recognition of God's grace. Pride is more about loving the oneself. Pride is universally acknowledged as the worst of the Seven Deadly Sins because the others are all said to stem from it: without that sense of superiority, you wouldn't have the nerve to flout God by committing the other six. Pride is excessive belief in one's own abilities, that interferes with the individual's recognition of the grace of God.

The color representing pride is purple or violet. The imaging here is to show that no matter how much we build and build our blocks we ultimately box ourselves in with our deeds. It is the full ripple of the cirlce around us that drives the source. The virtue against which pride sins is humility.

Our pride swells up only when we think we created the stone that was thrown to begin the circle.

All pride is a waste because our view of ourselves matters not at all in the end. Far better to live in truth, simply and without spin or image. This is humility, prized by many but understood by few.

This work has been purchased by a patron. Commission Welcome.

12" x 18" limited edition digital prints of this work are available