{"id":12926,"date":"2015-08-26T10:47:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T10:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/?p=12926"},"modified":"2025-05-28T00:16:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T23:16:17","slug":"artwork-in-situ-mary-watson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/artwork-in-situ-mary-watson\/","title":{"rendered":"Artwork in-situ: Mary Watson"},"content":{"rendered":"

“My work explores the competitive nature of human beings. I am particularly interested in how we invent activities to express our obsessions and how we use objects to embody or to encapsulate our competiveness. The \u2018Prize\u2019 represents the driving force behind our behaviour; it is the end goal and represents success. On a deeper level it is also a symbol of our self-conscious desire for validation and acceptance.”
\n<\/em>Mary Watson<\/p>\n

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