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My name's Anabel Alvarez Zenea
I turn 22 next month
This prize is really a great opportunity to carry out my work 4 00:00:33,932 --> 00:00:38,825 because sometimes students don't have all the necessary means
-I'm referring to money issues- to produce important works.
So in that sense it was a great opportunity to produce a piece that marked my work.
The title of the piece is "Genesis".
It is inspired on the visuality of those crystal cubes that they sell as souvenirs
and they have dotted tridimensional inside them.
The structure of the piece is modeled after my naked body
in a posture that simulates elevation.
and to cover it with a transparent resin that's
totally translucent and colorless.
That resin structured will be poked with tiny holes
that will be filled with the blood of different people that have had an influence in me,
whether it be from a creative or an artistic point of view.
That is, from a subjective point of view.
So those tiny holes, after they are filled with blood are once again sealed with resin.
The body that has a posture that simulates elevation is placed inside a vertical fish tank
filled with water.
That's how resin becomes invisible and it appears as if the dots made up the floating image.
So the whole fishtank has a stainless steel structure to resis water pressure
and there's a light that illuminates it from below
as well as a mirror that deflects light so that the piece is completely lit up inside.
I have six months to do the piece.
It was a time limit scared me a little.
But I have a team of people interested in working with me.
It's a lot of work, and a very complex piece.