This isn't about people being rich or wealthy, but it is about those who, born into wealth, use their network of influence and money to achieve their aspirations within a lifestyle of opulence to become decision makers who affect the majority of the population.
It is about how greed and power dismiss the ethos of sharing the burdens of society, and instead place their priorities on the self.
Three categories of those perceived as examples of privilege and greed are politicians, financiers and the royal family.
Politicians talk of making hard decisions, but such decisions very rarely appear to affect their standard of living, conversely it appears as if middle wage earners and the poor are burdened with the policy decisions that are made.
Financiers, the most obvious group of professionals who are filled with their own self-importance, who have single handedly crippled a large swathe of global economics and contributed precious little to supporting recovery efforts.
The UK royal family, a group of people born into privilege who play a part in a medieval tradition where they give patronage to their subjects in return for the lifestyle they are accustomed to. Supported by a propaganda machine that is the envy of any commercial enterprise, their contribution to society is questionable.
This art isn't about hatred or envy of these individuals and groups. It is a metaphor and a critique. Hopefully it questions why does there have to be such divisions in society. It is not an aspiration to some quasi communist/socialist society, but it is about what give these groups the right to live a life of opulence while everyone else suffers.
