Series. Puntopia.
Title: Ground Floor. Going Down. Hotel Lisboa. 2–4 Av. de Lisboa, Macau
2019
NB: Quasi-Fictional Street Photography Series.
Ground floor. Going down. How far can the punters go? Well at Puntopia’s celebrated gambling spot, the Lisboa casino, they can go as low as they want. Or don’t want! You see, the management know, that here, they don’t have a lot of control over how far down they go, for management decides that for them. Only they, the punters, don’t know that.
Heck, those with some common sense would not even enter the building, let alone get in the elevator. And for those foolish enough to step in, again common sense should dictate they best flee before the doors close behind them. But sadly sense is none too common around Puntopia.
So the doors close, and down they go. The basement beckons. It’s a black marble causeway of grand tackiness. It’s an underground avenue crammed with humans. A procession of rude and dodgy folk, stinking of tobacco and cheap vodka. It’s the hall of infamy. Here congregate the un-famous, famous for getting wasted and throwing it all away. Their cash first. Then what they can pawn off, from their wrists, finger and around their necks. When that’s all be tossed away on the roulette wheel, they head for the cash machines one floor down. Basement level 2. Here they try and remember their credit card PIN number and hope they can extract a few more Patacas, squeezed from their already over the limit overdraft limit.
Then when it’s whats’ called, game over, they head down to basement level three. And what happens there is, well, err, hmm, another story.
to see more of this series and peruse the fine art giclee prints, please visit the artists website at;
https://richardmarkdobson.com/personal-work/existential/puntopia/1
Written by Richard Mark Dobson
