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Me as an artist
I’ve evolved. I know now that art is something more than just looking good; I’ve learnt that you can create minimal pictures with meaning that can stun art critics everywhere. I’ve learnt I have a talent for the 3D, that […]
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Hans Bellmer
La Bouche by Hans Bellmer was another interesting piece to look at because one of my pieces was also a chair and was also mostly made of a dismembered body. I had constructed the chair with just a head atop […]
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My work as a whole
My work as a whole differs a ton from my paintings work in a manner of ways, though one thing is consistent between them; theres a violence about them. Both my paintings and physical work have both uncanny elements as […]
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Untitled blog post from "Home."
‘Now, dolls are of course rather closely connected with childhood life. We remember that in their early games children do not distinguish at all sharply between living and inanimate objects, and that they are especially fond of treating their dolls […]
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The Chapman Brothers
Jake and Dinos Chapmans work, Great Deeds Against The Dead, was the piece I was looking at before I chose the final pieces for my dissertation as I was looking at dolls and the human form. This work appealed to me […]
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Sarah Lucas
‘It often happens that neurotic men declare that they feel there is something uncanny about the female genital organs. This unheimlich place, however, is the entrance to the former Heim [home] of all human beings, to the place where each […]
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Dissertation
I wrote my dissertation upon the uncanny; on the homely and unhomely. I actually had a great interest in this kind of work before hand and looked at a few of the artists while I was planning my dissertation and […]
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Lv 5
Though not as successful in my second year as my first, I had fun in this second year because for the first time ever I got to create paintings. I made them big, using bright colours and instead of going […]
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Installation in the white space; Lv 4
‘Unnamed’ at the white space was my first installation ever; it was within the white space, was dark, involved projectors and had words along the walls around the pieces. The pieces themselves, including a wire deer head bound with string, […]
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The past; Lv 4
Level four was an exiting time, because before this moment I had only ever experimented in doing work upon the computer and occasionally, when feeling brave, I’d draw something physically. That all changed when I joined UCS and began to […]
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Horse
Its easy to tell someone to run. But its hard to actually… run when you are broken. I’ve always found horses interesting, the way they are utilized by human society, the way they are treated. When a horse is broken, […]
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Photos
This is about how ‘invisible’ this subject can be to others… unless you tell someone sometimes, its impossible to actually see what is happening behind closed curtains. I got pictures of me and people who suffered abuse; my housemate and […]