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other featured artists: anish kapoor- ‘flayed’, masako miyazaki- "peripatesia" series, leonardo drew-‘172T’

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Title: human vs AI

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This is a piece of art by Shannon Rankin depicting two hearts being connected by string on maps. To me it represents people connecting over long distances, and trying to stay connected even though they are in different places.

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Candy

I’m sorry I have a poor habit of clinging to people like candy.

A sticky candy that never lets go.
But after being pulled at, dunked in oil, splashed in water  I realised that I’m not wanted.

No matter how sickly sweet I am they can’t taste it. I’m not on their tongue after all.

And I’m littered with dirt from clinging on for so long. To long. Who would put me in their mouth now.

Leaving a sticky residue wear ever I walk. So hug myself, so tightly.
Picking the dirt from my hair.and moping the oil up.

Begging to wash my stickiness off
Praying my sweetness will go with it

I never been tasted I wonder how sweet I was - I was produced to sickly nobody dared to taste me

I preferred sour candy more anyway.

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I made this piece to show how total strangers in different places can connect to each other through the music they listen to. I was inspired by the fact that music can now travel across the world in seconds, connecting people together that don’t even know each other. I used yellow to make it seem like a happy connection, also a powerful, hopeful connection. I used the line of the headphone cord to show a connection, as if the two subjects are listening to the same thing, despite being far away from each other.

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This is one of a few biro drawings I have done of Caernarfon castle (next to where I live) and I hope to eventually have a full series of these drawings from around the castle walls.

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Tabitha - Alberta Whittle’s “Entanglement is More than Blood”

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Tabitha - Alberta Whittle’s “Entanglement is More than Blood”

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‘It becomes this entangled way of thinking about how we relate to each other’s histories, how we relate to each other through mythologies, but also its connection to climate change.’ - Alberta Whittle

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This is my own work, building on the theme of ‘Only Connect’ by displaying the connection I have with nature and my home country. The ink creates an abstract landscape of sorts, which reminds me of the Scottish Highlands, with a range of techniques suggesting a bout of torrential rain. There was always an element of fate in the work, allowing the ink to drip and spill wherever it went, using a small dropper to create small tear-like marks and eventually leaving the work out in the rain, which almost leads to a collaborative work between nature and myself.

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An outcroped island in the ocean with sea birds perched upon the rocks, floating in the surf, and flying in the sky. It is a colour woodcut made in 1928. I have chosen to put forward this work towards 'Only Connect' because of the reality of Nature. I believe too many times we regard products as simple items, magically appearing in supermarket shelves and never part of a whole process. As humans, I believe that the real motivation of happiness, disregarding synthetic stimulation of drugs, media and manipulation, is the connection one has between hands and the earth. If we as humans disregarded all mass production where we became disassociated with a product's life, I believe that many would become much more satisfied and happier with themselves instead of relying solely on other dependencies as motivation to live

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Brown and white arroyo runs along bottom left corner into left mid center; tall yellow chimisa along right edge of arroyo and into hillside at upper right edge; mountain in background.  It is a colour woodcut made in 1927.
I have chosen to put forward this work towards 'Only Connect' because of the reality of Nature. I believe too many times we regard products as simple items, magically appearing in supermarket shelves and never part of a whole process. As humans, I believe that the real motivation of happiness, disregarding synthetic stimulation of drugs, media and manipulation, is the connection one has between hands and the earth. If we as humans disregarded all mass production where we became disassociated with a product's life, I believe that many would become much more satisfied and happier with themselves instead of relying solely on other dependencies as motivation to live

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This is a Photogram I produced, I think it explores both line and shape well, stripping back the tone and three dimensionality of the objects and presenting their simplistic forms. Making it easy to establish similarities and connections between the objects. The Photogram shows the connections between four totally unrelated things, a coil of string, an abandoned photographic slide, a button and a circle of cardboard. In producing this I was able to produce the first connections between this set of objects.

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When I thought about ‘Only Connect’ my first thought was line, something which is often used to connect different things. It inspired me to experiment with different lines and shapes through printmaking, using both linocut and mono printing, as well as cutting out shapes and producing stencils. I wanted each shape and line to feel interconnected. I repeated multiple printmaking techniques, altering them each time so many of the marks and shapes included in this piece have been repeated but slightly changed, emphasising both connection and differentiation.

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I made this painting not long after covid lockdowns. It emphasises the need for a community and how in difficult times and situations we need to call on those around us and to help each other. Each of the pieces of glass that make this mirror ball represents a person in a community helping out. I found that during lockdown this was a really pivotal moment in my community as we were all doing things to help each other and making friendships that may not have happened otherwise. Even while being 2m apart we were still connected.

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This watercolour pen drawing is part of a series of paintings that I am currently completing. Surrounding the idea that we are closer connected to flora than we could ever image, it explores the idea that our actions are very much noticed by nature, hence the name ‘flora’s watching you’. Furthermore, the idea of the human eyes within the flower heads, shows an almost psychedelic take upon this idea, making those who look upon the paintings ever more self conscious of their contributions to the destruction of flora’s world.

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This was a piece I created on my iPad. I wanted to experiment and explore different media and techniques in order to enhance my skills. I’m planning to prepare myself to paint on a canvas, to show my progress and work with mixed media. The connection between the flowers and colours of the background, is showcased by the brushstrokes as it highlights the unique nature of the flowers. The continuous line work of the flowers enhance the details of the flowers.

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This was a piece of performance/visual art I made with a few of my classmates. One stood in front of the page,blindfolded, with a large paintbrush and was guided to draw what they felt on their back. The person behind them was receiving instructions to draw on the painters back based off of emotions that the person behind them was feeding to them.  The connections created between us created the art and became art itself as this was watched by an audience.

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I wanted to use connections to highlight the western mainstream media’s lack of moral imperative to report on major human rights issues like the mass sinking of migrant ships, in favour of the more “newsworthy” story about the titanic submarine which dominated headlines for days. This failure to bring people to justice and the obsession with wealthy society proves the moral imbalance of our newspapers and I wanted to bring attention to this. In both scenarios people we’re killed, but it is for the audience to question the relationship between the two images.

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Arctic Monkeys Concert photograph taken on fujifilm digital camera 

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This photograoh I took reminded me of the ‘Only Connect’ theme as there were so many strangers, and people we might not have met otherwise all joining together to enjoy an artist we all have in common. So while being complete strangers, we all have at least one connection that brings us together.