Anthony Lilly
Utilizing a combination of colored ink, pencil, paint, pastels, and collage elements allows the artist to create a series of works that explore morality in its extremes. The most basic concepts of right and wrong, virtue and vice are flaunted in vivid Technicolor so the observer pays attention. To view Lilly’s work as a whole you can see the evolution of a theme. “You ARE the Holy Spirit” is representational of moral clarity; ones spiritual quest and aspiration to exalt the soul. It’s speaks to our need to be virtuous and respectable. Step into the world of “You Win Some, You Lose Some”, and the soul slips into a sordid encounter with vice experiencing all its temptations, shadowy characters and obvious dangers. “WAR” is the culmination of these opposing poles clashing and struggling for supremacy within each of us; the wanting to live a moral and virtuous life battling against the want to thrill in the excitement of what is deemed by society as sin. It is the ultimate battle between Freud’s Super-ego and Id that Anthony Lilly so beautifully re-creates with his art.
