My premise
Through our senses, often imperfect and subject to the corrosion of time, we perceive a world that is both beautiful and terrifying, ordered and chaotic at the same time. We perceive it and try to understand the “why” – why it exists and the “how” – what to do about it, how to live.
Since time immemorial, people have been trying to reconcile their inner workings with their environment, to agree with each other, to cooperate. Politics is the ultimate expression of this. Politicians try to coordinate the views of many people so that out of the chaos an order emerges that will be beneficial.

Purpose
I used to have a dismissive attitude towards politics. It appeared to me as something impure, because the media mainly shows causes, i.e. the results of wrongdoing. However, on deeper reflection, new insights and contexts emerged:
The word is the most powerful tool.
Politics, as the art of words, is the most subtle and at the same time the most powerful agent of human history.
Where politics does not work, chaos reigns.
The purpose of the project is to encourage people (voters) to become more active in their role in politics and to encourage politicians and remind them that they are not faceless officials but rather honorable knights defending the values of the best system humanity has yet developed – democracy.

Origins
I worked in technical support for the cameras transmitting footage of politicians in action during the opening of the Czech EU2022 Presidency at the Prague Congress Centre. For days I had a monitor in front of my eyes, where brave people full of determination to make the world a better place took turns. I sensed something very compelling and apt in the combination of “bad image” (visible pixels of the monitor, dirt, the rawness of the transmission technology) and “sublimity of content” (determined smart people in fine clothes as spokespersons for their large tribes, a sophisticated form of contact provided by several layers of specialists from assistants, video and sound experts to interpreters, building technicians to catering and security and the exceptional environment of the Congress Centre).

I couldn’t resist and started taking pictures of the monitor overflowing with messages.

What emerged was a series of contrasting photographs whose content captures the pure in people – the desire for understanding and merging, while the raw form suggests the obstacles of the external and internal world that we are constantly overcoming in our desire to reach the ideal.