Antony Gormley’s work inspired us as his work has been created to provoke emotion from his audiences and he achieves this particularly in his work “Field” which is displayed in the picture above. “As a viewer, you become aware that you have unwittingly walked onto a stage where the normal relationships between observer and observed were reserved and it was the art that looked back at you”. ( Gormley, Leader, Orbach, Salecl, 2008, 360.) From viewing Gormley’s work we wanted to provoke emotion from the audience which is why we chose to have a vast amount of soldiers spread throughout the cafe and in the audiences personal space, such as in the sugar pot so that the audience feel connected to them. This way the audience will feel emotion due to the manipulation of the soldiers giving them a very small insight to how much of an impact losing the real eighty three soldiers would have been for those around at the time.
Gormley, A. Leader, D. Orbach S, and Salecl, P. (2008) Public space and the body, 24 (1) 360.