Initial Artist Research

To help with initial inspiration, I look at several artists from the list provided on the brief.

Louise Bourgeois

"The spiders were an ode to my mother. She was a tapestry woman, and like a spider, was a weaver. She protected me and was my best friend.  The spiders, which are portraits of my mother, are large because she was a monument to me. I want to walk around and be underneath her and feel her protection."

Tate Modern, London, 2007

Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2008

Michael Landy

For his piece Semi-Detached the artist Michael Landy re-created a copy of the house where his father lives. He copied it in every detail, right down to the bits of flaking paint. This work of art acts like a portrait: a portrait of his father as a house.

Tate Britain, 2004

Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson created a giant sun using mirrors, light and mist for The Weather Project, which he said was the basis for exploring ideas about experience and mediation. 

Tate Modern, London, 2003

Lucinda Devlin

A series of thirty chilling photographs of execution chambers and associated spaces, such as holding cells and viewing rooms. The Omega Suites brings focus to one of the great ethical questions facing contemporary Americans, about which public opinion continues to be passionate.

Lethal injection chamber, Huntsville, 1992

"Yellow Mama" electric chair, Atmore, Alabama, 1991

Lethal injection chamber, Nevada State Prison, 1991

www.sharkdiver.com

"The year you will finally meet the sharks of your dreams...so, if you're ready, let’s go shark diving!"

Casualties Union

Casualties Union is a charity that through casualty simulation provides casualties and patients for those who teach first aid, nursing and rescue - The treatment of illness, nursing, rescue, accident prevention, care in the community and similar activities. 

Simulated wounds appear very realistic.

www.secondlife.com

Second Life is an online virtual world with a simulated environment where users inhabit and interact via avatars, or graphical representations the virtual world may depict a real world or a fantasy world.  With infinite possibilities, live a life without boundaries, guided only by your imagination.

In 2006, Anshe Chung became the first person who made $1million, by buying and selling virtual land in second life.  

You can be whoever you want to be...

www.changethatsrightnow.com

Change Thats Right Now (CTRN) helps individuals, organizations and communities make fast, profound change by removing the fears, anxieties and phobias that keep them from reaching their true potential. Most session are conducted over the telephone, or through a home study CD.  There are hundred of phobias they can help you combat including the common phobias such as Flying or Public Speaking.