Fortitude Imagined

The visual representation of fortitude or courage as a virtue required a design that reflects a lonely, personal and intense journey filled with dangerous obstacles. In many cultures, the ultimate definition of courage may be to give up one’s life for a noble cause. In this instance, world religions would be an extremely conflicting resource. “Fortitude Imagined” borrows, then, from some of man’s earliest visual symbols. The carved figure and large X’s are symbols of death borrowed from Neolithic man. Other more benign and universal symbols such as the illustrated I-Ching and lion symbols help compliment the story.