The theme of my series of skateboards is four sins. The four sins I used in the series are according to the seven deadly sins: wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony. The sins I choose to be used in my skateboards are gluttony, pride, envy and greed. I used gradually colours in each board to connect them as a series.
The first sin is gluttony. Gluttony means the criminal of eating too much. I use the images of coke and chips to make a fat people’s face and body. The background colour is the colour of skin and fat. Coke and chips means junk food. The fat people touches his stomach because he cannot eat any more, but he still cannot stop eating chips. What he ate are not nutrients, what he ate are diseases.
The second sin is pride. Pride is a pride face made by stones. The colours I used in pride are grey and blue. Grey and blue are very cold colour. The stones are also cold. Pride people are cold to the people around them. He lifts up his head and closes his eyes. He cannot see anybody except himself. The neck of him is made of tiny stones. Neck is an important part to support his brain and face. He has a weak neck which is easy to be broken. Pride people think they are much better than other people. Who knows if his head is made by stones which cannot think and supported weakly.
The third and forth sins are envy and greed. Greed is a bird whose stomach is full of jellyfish. The colour of jellyfish is golden. Golden is the colour of money and value, but jellyfish are full of poison making living things die. The bird thinks what it ate is value, but most it ate are poison and useless water. Its skin is knitted and it cannot stand anymore because of its greed.
Envy is a rabbit who ties itself by its ears. Then it cannot hear anyone’s opinions anymore. Its eyes are red. It looks at the greed bird with envy. The colour I used is purple and green. The combine of these two colours makes people feel uncomfortable. Envy people are far away from other people and untouchable. I use rabbit because rabbit is very weak in the living things link. It’s too weak. Then it always envy.
Chen Du 3929


