"Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are the maladies of physcians to cure, if they should be cured.  `Sins of the soul alone are shameful."  
Oscar Wilde.  De Profundis 1879.

I have used this quotation from Wilde's De Profundis, the 50 page epistle he wrote to 'Bosie' (Lord Alfred Douglas) from his cell in Redding Goal, as the point of departure for this print.  It seems to me that those aspects of our personality such as arrogance and vanity that nibble away at our humanity, may indeed be regarded as the sins of the soul. Each of us will from time to time will destroy a small element of our 'soul', either through some deliberate action such as enjoying some-one's misfortune, or by elevating our self-esteem through incipient snobbery, or merely replying yes to the question, 'does my bum look big in this'.
Doubtless there are many words that might be judged as more appropriate than those I have selected, but my prediliction for alphabets means I have only 26 words to play with. One important word that failed to make it onto my print was cowardice. Its meaning encompasses acts as disparate as running away from a battlefield, or pretending not to hear cries for help, or more prosaically, using anonymity to enable one to bully, denigrate and frighten on social media such as Twitter or Facebook, or You Tube.

"Jester Joker" is a signed limited edition comprising 50 digital prints each finished with screen-printed protection glaze, and an Ultra Violet glossy glaze on the playing card symbols.