The Worship of Mammon

Mammon is the depiction of wealth as an evil influence that wrongly became the subject of worship in place of God. Here, a woman is being offered a large bag of gold by a statue of Mammon, but she bypasses this, heading straight for Mammon himself. Desperately clutching at his knee, the figure becomes a supplicant to him, bending down as if in the presence of a deity. Her purple-pink robes seem almost flesh-like, bruised and pale like her damaged outlook on worship and true spiritual wealth.