I first saw this series of Ofili's some years ago, while living in London. The Seven Deadly Sins are paintings in transition: between surface and depth, figure and foliage, light and dark, and, beneath that, between mythology and religion, the sacred and the profane. They are complex depictions that draw on a wide range of art-historical sources, from the spiritual abstraction of Marc and Kandinsky's Der Blaue Reiter years through William Blake and Fragonard. I absolutely love them.