Emily Prince (Contextual Studies)

These are some of the work of Emily Prince, I’ve decided to put this work up because I found it interesting and engaging, it’s an installation peace in a gallery, and as you can see from the top image looks like a lot of random coloured squares, but in fact as you get close to them on every single square is a portrait, which in its self is interesting, but what makes it have more impact and much more meaning is the fact that every portrait is a solider that’s died in Iraq or Afghanistan because of the fighting, as well as the colour of the squares represents the ethnicity of the people that have died.

Also the artist hasn’t included any of the Iraqi or Afghanistan soldiers in this work, I’m unsure as to what this is as I haven’t researched it that much, but personally  find that it give it more impact because knowing that the people on the wall are just the people we’ve sent over there, and in hindsight are just a fraction of the people that have died it makes it seem more and less really as to the amount of people that are dying, to supposedly try and make the country’s better were really were just destroying them.