Runnymede is a meadow on the Thames where the Magna Carta was signed in 1215. Today it is the site of several memorials, among them The Jurors, an artwork by Hew Locke. It consists of 12 high-backed bronze chairs arranged in a rectangular formation as if around a table. The chairs are decorated with images and symbols representing freedom, the rule of law, and human rights.
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Well I have to make a comment here, but forgive me! Shame our present government doesn't visit and have a meeting there! Back to the photo, you have processed it with a sepia tone giving a sense of the past. I hope that those very important values that our democracy was built on, aren't now in the past? I am not sure if that is why you processed this that way? Maybe you did, but that is how I am reading it! :(
You have it exactly right, Madeleine. I did think that this is not a forum for overt political statements, but I was hoping that anyone aware of current affairs would at the sight of this draw their own conclusions. Photography has a proud history of conveying a message without words.
