In Life in Pieces, Melanie Meggs explores chronic illness, memory loss, and identity through sculpture and AI-generated video, examining survival as an ongoing negotiation with a body forever altered.

In Lee Ufan's art, nothingness does not mean emptiness as absence or lack. Instead, it becomes an active space of possibility.

James Rhodes is a Newcastle interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and teacher at Newcastle Art School whose practice examines photography as a physical and spatial object rather than simply a two-dimensional image.

The unmoulding revealed the suspended photographic layers and the slight shifts between them, which created the visual instability I had been aiming for.

This week, the concrete pedestal begins and is finalised for Life in Pieces.

Social media and digital platforms have reshaped how art is distributed, viewed, and discussed. Platforms such as Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, websites, and virtual galleries allow artists to share work without relying only on traditional gallery systems.

New media art uses digital technologies which creates complex ethical questions.

Samir draws on theories that describe serious illness as a threat not only to the body, but also to the integrity of the self. This strongly reflects how I feel.

Webster writes from the position of someone living with multiple sclerosis after fourteen years of unexplained symptoms, including fatigue, weakness, and difficulty walking.

Interdisciplinary artist Clare Weeks uses her own body to explore illness, identity, and the relationship between fragility and endurance.

Sophie Calle works in a way where life and art are completely mixed together.

Artists use machine learning to generate images, extend photographic and digital processes, construct speculative worlds, analyse data, automate movement, and create responsive installations.

My installation, Life in Pieces, sits alongside two digital video works Unsolvable and Frustration, forming a cohesive system that examines the experience of living within a body that no longer functions in a predictable or unified way.

The second attempt on the making of the resin head proves a success.

This week explores how contemporary artists use technology to create artworks that respond, shift, or evolve through audience interaction, code, sensors, virtual reality, robotics, and artificial intelligence.

New decision to add a second video into the installation to communicate the internal frustration and physical tension held within the body.

Sound plays an important role in the visual arts by adding another layer to how we experience a work.

Through performance, printmaking, and installation, Carolyn Craig explores the systems and expectations that influence identity and behaviour.

Julianne Swartz is an artist known for her installation-based practice that integrates sculpture, sound and architecture.

This week I completed my first resin pour for Life in Pieces, documenting each stage of the process.