I have been looking at a passage at the back of the bible which talks about seven angels which come down to earth to carry out gods wrath against those who are seen to be worshipiing ‘The Beast’, In order, the seven angels pour out their bowls onto the earth and carry out seven consequtive plagues being;
Painful and harmful sores upon men who wore the mark of the beast and worshipped its image
The sea’s became blood, and all the living creatures in the sea died
The springs of water and the rivers became blood
The angel allowed the sun to scorch people
Kingdoms plunged into darkness, peoples gnawed their tounges in anguish
The great river euphrates’s water dried up, allowing a passage for the kings from the east
Lightning and rumblings, followed by an earthquake such as there had never been seen before.
These are the order of the seven wraths of god which are placed upon man. Initially I have thought of these angels to be horrific creatures which are carrying out evil deeds. However these plagues are only seen to be placed upon the sinners of the world, cleanising the world and leaving people who are seen to be innocent. Does this mean that the angels might not be evil after all, and they might be carrying out great deeds to help the world? With thinking about both of these ways of thinking of the angels, I have been toying with the ideas to make seven series of works for the seven angels. It is not definiate what each series will be of, But ideas could be such as using the angels, as sort of superhero’s. People with the power to help people, and they can be seen to be helping good people, or on the otherhand they could be seen to be like scientists who are committing these experiments on people. Another idea is that i will have a portrait of a person, seven of the same person however showing how each plague has affected this person in different ways. It is unclear of yet what i will do these series on, however soon i shall have to start the first one, so better hurry up!
