Birth of Bacchus (Dyptych) Oil

Birth Of Bacchus. looks at hedonism and it's consequences. Bacchus being the Roman God of wine and intoxication. The God watches over the scene of debauchery foaming at the mouth himself too drunk to realise what is going on. Weighing the grapes against the brain. He watches as a minotaur representing sexual virility and blind lust has sex with a catholic devote. The Minotaur has been speared like at a bull fight but is unaware as too involved in the drink and sex. The devotee looks as blood turns to wine. Both are oblivious to the consequences of their actions

Birth Of Bacchus (II) looks at the consequences of hedonism. Bacchus is now black and diminished but still able to control the seen just how an addiction diminishes the sufferer but forces them to continue. The Catholic devotee gives birth but the baby is abandoned on the floor. The devote to drunk too care. While the father, the minotaur stands over the devotee also ignoring the baby, penis in hand ready to copulate. The windmill symbolising the circle of addiction and how the scene will play out again and again.