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The Seven Deadly Sins give us an interesting insight into our emotions. They are like a mirror which confront us with our negative qualities and they are (more or less) hiding deep inside of us and would prefer to remain there. But from time to time there are situations where they burst out and we cannot control these negative emotions anymore. We have ourselves no longer under control because our subconscious mind is controlling us now. Lust and Greed are very extreme obsessive emotions. If one of these sins overcomes us, we have to get or to own something with an such urge need. Thus those we would go extreme and obsessive pathways to get what we want, while we got caught by one of these sins. The visualization of The Seven Deadly Sins are as kind of a symbiosis acting between the human being and the respective deadly sin. The human being is the bearer of one of the seven properties. He or she merges downright with it and transports it to the outside or has to deal with it in the inside. The human being offers many interesting design opportunities. Facial expressions and gestures play an important role and therefore they offer exciting design aspects of the character representation. Obsession is a fascinating topic to deal with because it goes beyond its limits and much further. And that is what The Seven Deadly Sins do, they go beyond all limits because they are such extreme emotions and characteristics thus they also could named as The Seven Obsessions. The collage technique is a combination of different individual paper fragments which resulting a completely new identity and visual language. Facial expressions and gestures are accordingly changeable and put the fragments into a new context. On the basis of the humanization of each deadly sin, everyone can identify with. 12