The beggars strike may have been my favorite piece. Having read the Communist Manifesto I really felt a strong analogy between the proletariat resistance to the bourgeois being embodied by the poor who abandon the kingdom in the midst of a ceremony in which they play a major role. In a way it was a critique of capitalism as it proved that the systems capitalism/feudalism give rise too allow for the oppression of a significant amount of people. But without that group of people the system inevitably falls. This speaks to the fact that any system inherently designed to rely on the oppression of people is immoral and unjust. And like in any society it is important that the oppressed resist and behave in a way that prevents further oppression. My work is a collage of various stereotypes of people and how they appear to other members of society. Like in reality it cannot work unless each person plays a significant role in comparison with the other. The same can be said of the collage. Without each person, the picture has holes leaves the viewer displeased. It does not matter what is there but trying to fill the picture with only upper class, middle class or lower class citizens would not work because a society must be comprised of a number of each. However the collage is also representative of the mixture of classes. There must be mobility, a chance for improvement. Otherwise the collage is simply a row of pictures grouped together based on social class, in which case it ceases to be art work. It fails to be a successful style of government when things are distinguished that shouldn’t be.