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As
you can see it is a Piece that I have made out of the "White Chess Set"
by Yoko and I have called it "Coloured Chess Set".
The
basis is the same, but where Yoko says "Play It by Trust", I add "Yes,
Play It by Trust and Joy". I think that we must always be remember that we
better respect and enjoy the others. That we are more equals than we thought and
that although the differences, we are not as different as we are told. No matter
how angry and hateful we are, in fact we all are in the same game. A game that
could be of life and togetherness, or a game of death and rejection. This is our
choice. When I was a child, about 10, I used to hate playing
chess, because my older brother, who was 5 years older than me, used it to humiliate
me. He always won, of course, and that gave him a sense of being stronger and
more clever than me, and he would show off and enjoy his victory by insulting
me. That created a lot of resentment in me towards him. But when I was alone,
I found something fascinating in that black and white cardboard and all those
different pieces. So I enjoyed very much playing chess alone, with my own rules.
The cardboard could be a big golden room, a palace, a country or a planet, and
there were lots of love stories over there, usually new versions of the tragedy
of Romeo and Juliet: Rejected by the rest of the pieces, the black queen and the
white horse could fly into one of the corners of the chessboard, the land of Lilliput,
were they would live happily among the black and white pawns. On the other side,
the white king could start a war when the black king stole his white tower, but
there were always happy endings with balls and parties, where the pieces got to
know to each other, dancing and talking. So with all this
in mind, I made this Coloured Chess-Set, as a way of add a layer to Yoko's. Maybe
if we have had this kind of chess set when I was 10, my older brother and I would
speak to each other now.
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Jorge Artajo
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