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In order to know exactly how to shrink and make my installation my own and yet still have the essence of my original ideas but with further development I knew I needed to see how someone else combines their ideas and produces and small and yet significant installation.

For this I researched into Joyce Owens:

This installation really inspired me. The fact that it's quite a small installation has good development of how it shows the process of still life within 4 different materials in which change the picture each time, finally producing a final piece/outcome which is seen at the very top. It almost shows the ladder of success in which many people use to get somewhere high up in life.

I chose to research into the installations of Joyce Owens as they really caught my eye with the originality and interesting aspects of them, for example, within the installation above there’s a mannequin that’s been painted into a realistic skeleton with a bright red heart that’s in the wrong position of the body and the mannequin has hair coming out of it. It’s these objects within her installations that really intrigue me. The fact that she uses hopeful and needed words to peoples lives, that feeling of reassurance and almost the religious sacrament, the hands of god, ‘I can heal’.