INTRODUCTION
The question came to me on a cloud-kissed afternoon, over a cup of steaming joe a friend casually said, “Everything that is evil, isn’t evil to everyone.” The words hung like a guillotine above my neck, the efficacy of that statement sparking a morbid curiosity. What is evil to everyone? Is it a flavor—bitter to one tongue, honey to another? A shifting phantom shaped by culture, faith, or the absence of both, or is it faceless, slithering through the cracks of our collective denial?
The Church once named seven pillars of damnation: pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, sloth. Yet I wondered, how have these evils evolved in modernity? What new shapes do they take in a world where algorithms and screens feed our souls? This collection is my sharpened exploration: the seven deadly sins of the modern world, stripped of their masks.
Consumption—the ravenous devouring sanity.
Thanatos—death’s seduction.
Vainglory—the hall of broken mirrors we call “self.”
Anomie—society’s slow-motion suicide.
Apathy—the rot of indifference.
Denial—the lies we tell ourselves to endure reality.
Loneliness—craving connection while fearing intimacy.
I won’t lie to you; this is not a gentle book. It will press its thumb to the bruises of your soul and ask, “Do you recognize yourself here?” To wander this gallery is to confront the portraits we’ve turned from, the grotesque truths beauty swallowed whole.
If you dare, step inside. Let these pages be your guide through the labyrinth where pain and purpose intertwine. When you emerge, the world may feel sharper, brighter, a little more alive.
Come. Meet me beneath a purple moon. We’ll dance our evils till dawn.
