Emily Preston

                                            ORLAN ORLAN is a French Artist, she does create sculptures, photographs but she is mostly know for for augmented reality ,using scientific and medical technics like surgery to her self. She is the first artist to use her body as a art form. She worked on her own body a lot and to put together the idea of private and the social which leads on to her talking about feminine struggles and how the body itself is political. But mostly her work is about questioning what beauty is and what makes something Beautiful and what is that Standard beauty. And the ideas that the different can be the norm.  With her surgery performances she is awake during the surgery. It was filmed live and she communicated and networked with people around the whole whilst being in surgery. One of the things I like about her surgery...

                                             Aware Themes     Here are some themes that I was interested in. over the summer I was Influence by a Documentary series called Dark Tourist, which is about David Travelling to unusual and Dangerous places in the world, for example he went to Tomioka, which was evacuated during the Fukushima nuclear disaster, wherein he discovers higher than expected levels of radiation and to Cyprus, where he tries to sneak in to Famagusta, a walled off ghost city. watching this made me think about what radiation does to the Environment and does it effect the whole world? Air pollution Then I started to look at pollution and how we are effected like air pollution effects Asthmatic people and  may also trigger asthma as small particles in the air can pass through your nose or mouth and get into ...

      Hannes Koch and Florian Ortkrass                   Rain room The artists I looked at was Hannes Koch and Florian Ortkrass, Rain Room art installation as I am interested in interactive artwork. the rain room is droplets of rain that full down but as you move through the room the rain doesn't hit you so you walking in the rain and not getting wet. During this installation piece they did get dance performers to move around the room as members of the public walked through . I like this piece of work, there is something that is quiet inviting moving through a rain room and not getting wet and seeing how the dancers move through out the room.

              S ummer project - Photo Series  For my Photo series I wanted to show how one place can be divided as if you were in two different places, depending on your perspective and how the gentrified version of Woolwich has changed this place. Modern buildings are now being placed where there is strong historical significance, replacing the old with the new. I have thought about ways to develop my photos and how I would display them and where. Development For development i was thinking about going back to the photos before my final ones, where they had a black line going through them, and I thought maybe I should add the back line and still have two photos of the gentrified version and the old version over laping like my final ones. so this way i can still have the idea that you can be in one place but feel like your in another place but have this black line of space in between like the wall. How it would be display I thought ...