Human Environment: Ben Frost And Pricilla Bracks

Human Environment – Evaluating and comparing two artists.

Chosen Artists: Ben Frost and Pricilla Bracks.
A human environment, as defined by a glossary website is a ‘Natural and physical environment and the relationship of people with that environment including physical, biological, cultural, social, and economic factors in a given area.’ (http://www.cawater-info.net/bk/glossary/water_management/en/h.htm) Through the human environment that artists are in and depending on what events are occurring during present society, art will be manipulated and determined in many ways to present the environment that is surrounding a person. An environment will have a superficial affect on a human and this transformers a person to respond in such a way
Interested in the web that is social behaviour; her work focuses on political, social and environmental issues. As well as studying the connections between human nature, the media and the law. These are her favourite topics and ideas to work from when she is creating her art. Her biggest project and idea is called ‘Making the Empire Cross’ and it is a number of series that investigate the creation of truth and how the relationships between images and media form new context to the world. ‘Bearded Orientals’ from ‘making the Empire Cross’ is a lenticular image which can make the audience flip between images of Osama bin Laden, Terrorist mastermind and Jesus Christ. It is an ideal example of ‘the creation of truth’ as it puts to very unalike characters together to create her truth of the world. Pricilla’s initial reasoning for her piece was to ask the people how we think of the world and what we are meant to accept, but what we don’t. Positing the idea of not only ‘comparing’ religious figure, Jesus Christ to once was the most wanted man Earth, Osama bin Laden together sparks a lot of controversy as they are both very different figures in History and are well known for the opposite reasons. But there’s one thing they have in common. The world knows both of them for the things they have done, and people either believe it to be right or believe it to be wrong. And the truth that Pricilla was trying to make is that in today’s society, even after Osama was killed and captured in 2012, the news and the public society cares more and focuses more on what is evil rather than good, because if we just accepted the good – there would be nothing to talk about. The picture is not only a confession and reality but also an underlying conception of the world we live in and a world we will always