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This & That Collective

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(Previously EdgeZine) A platform to showcase and celebrate the work of truly talented creative students who would otherwise slip under the radar.
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Degree show final piece by University of Kent student Georgina Wilcox

‘The installation is a false memory, the residue of a hoax event of my own creation, a flood. Emerging in some part with thoughts of J.G Ballard’s novel, ‘The Drowned World’, in mind; his imagined dystopian aftermath of global warming, a world in which London is submerged under the water of the melted polar ice caps and human civilisation regresses back to a prehistoric state. This, in composite with the actual 1954 event on my own campus, the Historic Dockyards, Chatham; HMS Talent, a submarine situated in the dry dock for repair, was dragged out and is still presently deposited in the river parallel as a result of the caisson holding it failing and the ensuing flood waters.'

You can see more of Georgina’s work here http://www.fineartkent.com/#!georgina/c1aec

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IRLEN, by Leeds College of Art photography student  Alexandra Winward. Read Alexandra’s description below. 

'My project entitled ‘IRLEN’ is a cathartic visual response that sets out to explore Irlen syndrome, which is a specific visual perception disorder that affects the way I distinguish visual information, the brain is unable to process full spectral light making me unable to see in 3D, leaving me incapable to differentiate environmental factors such as lighting, brightness, glare, high contrast, patterns and colours. In simple terms, some signals from the eye are not getting to the brain whole. While the eye might be functioning correctly, the brain receives a signal that is processed like a double exposed picture where the location of items is confused. The brain tries to filter out the ‘bad’ information and so the aware mind receives a restructured image that lacks information or is considered as a falsified communication of reality.'

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