Fallen Virtue

These designs are based on the nine choirs of angels as proposed by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, and on the visions of Saint Hildegard of Bingen.
The fallen Virtue follows the idea that where the Virtue is full of strength and radiates it, the fallen Virtue is ravenous for power and resorts to stealing it from other beings. Because of this, the design emphasises the mouth of the fallen Virtue, which is a hole that opens into its central body. The margins of the three pieces that make up his body are not closed, exposing the inner emptiness of the fallen Virtue.
The design also shows the damage that the fallen Virtue has sustained to its form; the demon is composed of broken pieces, the remains of its former angelic form. The shape of these pieces is that of an inverted triangle, which gives the figure a sense of instability. The light that used to emanate from the body of the Virtue has given way to a black surface, as if it were stained with ashes.
Finally, the flames that formerly crowned the head of the Virtue now emerge from the head of the fallen Virtue in the form of smoke horns.