No.2 - Deity

No. 2 Deity
450 x 610mm; Completed on 12 November 2009
Acrylic on canvas

No. 2 Deity was conceived as a part of a concept art challenge. It was based on the song Deity (watch/listen on YouTube), by the Japanese band Dir en grey. I chose it as the song because it's just words, with no prescribed narrative but simply concepts of religion, belief, hate, disbelief, the religious, the damned, sung in Russian to a melody layered over a disemboweled Brahms composition accompanied by heavy and sinister music, to damn, or for the damned I can't be certain. 

Deity lyrics:

Головокружение
(goh-loh-voh-kroo-dzyeh-nee-eh) dizziness/vertigo
Ева Адам
(yeh-vah ah-dam) Adam/Eve
Мучение
(moo-chyeh-nee-eh) The torture
Жертва
(dzyehrt-vah) Victim
Апостол
(a-poh-stohl) The Apostle
Бог Боль
(bohg bohl) God is the pain
Родиться
(roh-dee-tsyah) To be born
Пробовать
(proh-boh-vyah-ts) To try
Кровь
(kroh-v) The blood
Ноль
(nohll) Null

For whom do we live? For whom do we breathe? For what is ones’ truth, cause, substance? Double standards, defeat, comfort, complacency, compromise, eyes wide shut. Only the mortal who gives birth to meaning in life is the now Deity...I seek to create paradise for this lifetime because I render an eternity of paradise and perfection within paradise and perfection meaningless.

...No. 2 really was the culmination of my thought processes as a reminder to honour my dreams, goals and ambition. The blood from the upheld conjoined palm is of course, symbolic of the feeding of a fetus off its mother’s uterus. And this blood pools on the ground before every drop raises to symbolically build a nation out of its’ own flesh and blood.--excerp from No.2 + A Preview

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