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| Photo: Carina Altomonte |
intentions turn into arrogance, the irony, and the close race between the pursuit of noble causes and self-interest.
Hubris VI: Prayer Meeting with Mr. and Mrs. Maritess Schadenfreude is an assemblage sculpture that metaphorically illustrates the virtues we outwardly project and what festers beneath. It portrays our delight in others' misfortunes reinforcing our moral superiority and an overinflated sense of spirituality and enlightenment. Worms, creatures that thrive on decay and evoke disgust in many, are like hubris, feeding on what is broken and putrefying, speeding up the cycle of rot, devouring what sustains them until nothing remains. Like a sick symbiotic relationship, our hubris nourishes itself for survival while destroying us from within.
Through this work, I remain hopeful that perhaps someday, despite our depravity, there will be transformation and redemption and the cycle of rot will finally be broken. But then again, perhaps I have simply gone delusionally optimistic or a full on holier-than-thou, simping for an impossible happily-ever-after and transcendence to a moral high ground—exhibiting an unhinged display of virtue signaling —like a pompous worm making a grand exit from an equally pompous ass, giving the very ass a chef’s kiss and an Amen, and calling it the Hubris Series.
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