The Good and the Evil

There is no GOOD or EVIL existing as an object. But there is good and evil as a mankind invented qualification. We use it to measure our surrounding on a scale of good and evil, defined by our point of view, which is determined by our culture, education and religion and our own experience. Generally, we are striving for the good, longing for a world, where only the good is existing. But that is an impossibility, just from the logical point of view. There is no good without any evil. They are antagonists. Therefore, if we want to enjoy the good, we must accept the evil. The scale can shift towards the good, but the evil will never be gone. The good is the infinity. The idea for his series of photos was to let the viewers engage with the topic and draw them into an active dispute, triggering their personal judgment. In the scene, heavily supported by various symbols, we see the good in the person of a puppet like, sweet-faced model, wearing a white Rococo dress. The evil is represented by a model with a more dramatic facial expression, wearing a black feather larded Black Swan type of gown with a rubber covered upper part. I designed and made those costumes to meet the western viewer’s cultural set of symbols, but choose to have Asian models and a Rococo type of setting to generate a more artificial context. I wanted to reduce touch to reality.