Original Art Photography Series by @velimir #155 'Current State of the Stage'

The name of this art photograph is: 'Current State of the Stage'

A few days back, I walked past this large chess in a park. It was a sunny day and the pieces were all scattered around. As far as I counted, some were missing, too. The first association that hit me was - politics, the state of world politics, to be exact. The grand stage on which an enormous amount of useless people create fate for the rest of us because we let them do so. :)

Low backlight creating long shadows of the downed kings, queens and their servants, with rich detail kept on both sides of the intensity scale is a distinctive mark of this piece. The pieces were carefully composed so that there is no imbalance between them. The black and white contrast is obvious and meant as left and right wings of the same old tale, we keep hearing over and over again. Like a mantra putting us to sleep with its boring repetitiveness. Left and right changes nothing. The problem is way deeper than only changing the sides on a football field.

With this one, I definitely venture into metaphoric political photography. What's more - I am quite enjoying it. The key figures are down, their shills are down, some are moved away from the board, some are missing in action. Unfortunately for the rest of us, they will immediately all be replaced by younger actors who will continue to suck out the marrow of the vast majority of world's population and live their lives in an indolent manner of debauchery and arrogance so lovely exhibited in daily media coverages.

However, we are all only mortals, aren't we? There are a rise and fall of everything. Such is a way of the world.

As Shakespeare beautifully wrote in his time:

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
...

Not much has changed, since!

Until crypto came...

Enjoy! :)

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