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Claim your glory.

There is a king in every social group in this world, whether it be on a small scale, or a large scale (primary and secondary social groups). If you look close enough, there is a king in every industry. Most of them in which are just overrated, greedy swine that have been sucked into the continuously turning whirlpool of the mainstream. A good example of this is within the music industry, where we have a ‘king’ for each genre, such as; the king of rock and roll and the king of pop.

The social and economic system runs strictly between an order of hierarchy that us as humans have created throughout the evolutionary climb to the world as we know it. I’ve been touching on some ideas related to ‘the system’, sticking it to the system and flaws in the system. The idea that any ordinary, genetically equal member of this society can claim they’re status as ‘king’, and are automatically worshiped by the majority.

I am now trying to refine a specific idea to represent just one interpretation of this concept. It involves the subject dressed as a king, composed in ironic settings (places where an old fashioned king would not normally be found) to try and outline the contrast in society between ordinary people, and the class of a ‘king’.

The painting above is by french painter, Claude Vignon. It is King Croesus, king of Lydia from 560 to 546 BC. He was known for his outstanding amount of wealth.