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AP-APTN-0930: ++UK Royal Wedding Tuesday, 8 February 2011 STORY:++UK Royal Wedding- NEW American artist creates interactive model of Prince William LENGTH: 04:09 FIRST RUN: 0930 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: English/Nats SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 674899 DATELINE: London - 7 Feb 2011 LENGTH: 04:09 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST London - 7 February 2011 1. Pan from street to Stephen Friedman Gallery window 2. Wide of photographer taking pictures of Prince William wax statue 3. Wide of artist Jennifer Rubell posing with statue 4. Medium of artist Jennifer Rubell posing with statue 5. Close up Rubell wearing replica engagement ring 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jennifer Rubell, artist: "Well, I was sitting on an airplane from New York to Miami reading junky magazines right after Prince William and Kate's engagement was announced and I immediately knew I wanted to do a work around it. The subject of engagement is completely fascinating to me and I started to think about how to create a work that was interactive, because all my work in interactive, and so I thought about the photo itself of the engagement announcement and in that photo William is perfectly standing alone on his own and Kate has come in and put her hand through his and really made an effort to show the ring. I thought about how staged that was and how much he felt like the statue itself. Then slowly I developed the idea that he could stand alone and that through the ring all of us could inhabit the position that Kate inhabited, kind of having our Prince Charming propose to us in that moment." FILE: London -16 November 2010 7. Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton arriving for news conference during which they announced their engagement London - 7 February 2011 8. Close up replica engagement ring 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jennifer Rubell, artist: "We didn't find a ring. I had somebody, Karlin Anderson a jeweller in London remake the ring. Obviously there will probably be thousands of people putting their fingers through this ring, so it is made out of materials more durable than the original. One part that I particularly love is the sapphire is true sapphire except it is not mined, it is made in a laboratory, it's called synthetic sapphire and I love the idea of the relationship between the real and the man made, the real and the fake...Was it real when William and Kate were posing for photographs in front of a bay of photographers? Was that any more real than a wax statue of Prince William with who ever comes up on the pedestal? I love exploring that whole issue." 10. Tilt up Prince William statue 11. Close up statue's hands 12 Close up watch 13. Close up statue's face 14. Close up eyes 15. SOUNDBITE (English) Jennifer Rubell, artist: "Yeah, we are all Kate Middleton, we are all somebody who would be very excited to be proposed to by somebody who loves us, whether they are a prince or anyone else. It isn't really...I mean somebody entering this piece is able to inhabit for a moment a certain kind of emotion that is a tremendously feminine emotion that, yes, I am sure Kate inhabited or continues to inhabit, but, it is a kind of portrait of that emotion. People say that Kate is not inside this artwork, but in fact her feelings are the subject matter of this artwork." FILE: London -16 November 2010 18. Close up Kate Middleton and Prince William 19. Close up engagement ring on Middleton's finger London - 7 February 2011 20. Close up replica engagement ring 21. Wide of woman walking towards statue and posing with the statue STORYLINE Women in London are being offered the chance to be a princess for a few moments by participating in what is being described as a piece of interactive art. American artist Jennifer Rubell is asking people to step into royal bride-to-be Kate Middleton's shoes. She has created a life size waxwork of Prince William, complete with engagement ring - only this time, it's not Kate wearing it. Rubell's artwork allows people to interact with the wax model by putting their finger through the replica sapphire and diamond ring attached to 'William"s forearm. "We are all Kate Middleton, we are all somebody who would be very excited to be proposed to by somebody who loves us, whether they are a prince or anyone else," Rubell said. "Somebody entering this piece is able to inhabit for a moment a certain kind of emotion that is a tremendously feminine emotion that, yes, I am sure Kate inhabited or continues to inhabit, but, it is a kind of portrait of that emotion." The replica ring was made in London by jeweller Karlin Anderson. "Obviously there will probably be thousands of people putting their fingers through this ring, so it is made out of materials more durable than the original," said Rubell. "One part that I particularly love is the sapphire is true sapphire, except it is not mined, it is made in a laboratory. It's called synthetic sapphire and I love the idea of the relationship between the real and the man made, the real and the fake ... was it real when William and Kate were posing for photographs in front of the bay of photographers?" Rubell is a former food writer from New York and usually features edible objects in her work. One piece saw her suspending a ton of honey-coated ribs from a ceiling. So why the royals this time? She said the idea came to her during a flight from New York to Miami. "I started to think about how to create a work that was interactive, because all my work in interactive, and so I thought about the photo itself of the engagement announcement and in that photo William is perfectly standing alone on his own and Kate has come in and put her hand through his and really made an effort to show the ring," she said. "I thought about how staged that was and how much he felt like the statue itself. Then slowly I developed the idea that he could stand alone and that through the ring all of us could inhabit the position that Kate inhabited, kind of having our Prince Charming propose to us." The exhibition will run from 8 February to 5 March. 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