-Critical Evaluation-

The starting point for this blog of reaserch was Paola Anziche, her work consisted on more artistic merits than mine, she especially looked into form and the way an environment changes body extension.
Her methodology put my own work into a new light considering what might be a viable existence to a location for my work.
The environment also creates many other aspects to the piece, the feeling and the structure seems to change depending on location.
This notion for me was a new aspect to looking and critically making decisions about the work's context and how others might perceive my work to be.
If I had done this piece of reaserch before the final photo had been taken I would have taken great care as to the environment I was displaying the work and how this might eventually effect my work.

The next piece was of work I discovered was a series of photographs I dug up on Google, that were, from what I could tell, a university's or college's show.
The pieces accentuated parts of the body in a creative and yet viable form of body extension, again, this was not so far from my own work but almost an extension of it.
The key differences between my work and the artist's in reference is the lack of functionality and durability. The pieces I viewed were frail and in some case's very crude, as A piece of amour my work had to have some functionality and this brings us to the next guy, Stelarc.

Stelarc used technology and its functions to create performances by giving the audience the control over the show by using buttons to stimulate his muscles in different ways, creating this unique performance each time.

Rebecca Horn and her work spans back decades but what’s really nice to see is strong structures "Pencil Iron mask" and the famous "finger gloves" her experimentation with body extension is that through the sense's.
Her work often involves creating a unique experience for the user of her objects by creating an extension of the senses. This is not something that apparent in my work, or so I thought, but I remembered how the glove's of my amour feel, it's like nothing before, you have a good inch or two extensions of the fingertips and this creates pressure on the part just under the nail, creating a very sensual experience indeed.
Her work has been a key factor since then, looking into what feels like what and what advantages a piece can gain from incorporating them.

Next thing, I tried to dig up internet based reference to destructive creatisim, this in my attempts left me with very little.
It's a shame really as this section really hits into a key aspect of my work, breaking something down to re-create it again in a better and sometimes more suited form.
It's an old notion but the ideal's of recycling are very important to many cultures and the way we as humans lived in the past.
As it stands at the moment recycling has its many advantages and is currently a big buzz word for today’s culture.

My piece worked and was successful in its own right, I created (not finished) a piece of work that had sensory extension, was decorative (also tied in with the styles that I had researched on other 2D artist's) but on top of that it met its function in durability.
I am very pleased to say that even if it was unfinished, the work itself met all the requirements that I had hoped and would fit into a post apocalyptic setting.