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This is my entry for the "master and servant" challenge in cgtalk...

I tried to bring the challenge to its spiritual level and find a way to express the inner battle that take place between our self and our passions. The passion in this particular piece is the master, is the passion of gamble. The figure is the King of the cards, the King of the gamble, drawn to its spiritual form, be born by the mind and the thoughts of the gambler, lost and by the same time created through smoke, fog and the illusion…the same fog and illusion that rule the mind and soul of the poor player (who is the servant).

The servant, is looking forward to us, forward to the player he has in front of him, the last one, try to think, to decide…what the next card will be? …the salvation or the destruction of his dreams? He feels anxious, insecure, he is sweating but he must make the move…he needs clear mind but his passion is the one that guided him to this moment, and the same passion will finally make the decision of this last move…

The Master, the King, a strange figure pulled out from the cards…gathers complex emotions, his left side glows in the light, more severe, more observative, his hand touches the cards, seems to want to aid the servant, they seem as they share the game…but the other side hides in the dark, the red color of the fire, the red color of the passion, he has the look of the judge, we can see the craftiness in his eyes as he raises his hand to strike the servant with his sword.

No matter the result, the poor gambler will be always the loser…