Unfinished — Parasol.io

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BRIAN WILLIAMS
CREATIVE/ARTS/TECHNOLOGY
LONDON, UK
brian [at] parasol [dot] io

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PROJECTS

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UNFINISHED WORK
A WHO-supported interdisciplinary arts project to benefit cancer research

Unfinished Work is an arts project to benefit cancer research.

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Cancer kills 10 million people every year worldwide,

many of whom are artists.

Playwrights,

musicians,

writers,

painters,

and coders.

Many of these artists leave unfinished works behind.

Paintings,

compositions,

sculptures,

scripts,

and programs.

You could say
the lives of these works
ended with the
lives of the artists.

What if we could extend
the life of the work, and help cancer research extend the lives of all?

Unfinished Work aims to pair these orphaned pieces with living artists who will “finish” them in surprising ways.

For example, an unfinished novel

could be finished as a composition.

An unfinished screenplay

could be finished as an app.

An unfinished poem

could be finished as a photograph.

These “finished” pieces will be displayed at an Unfinished Work gallery, and auctioned to benefit cancer research.

An interactive gallery will make the unfinished works available to visitors for research, or to try completing themselves.

And finally, we will launch a line of “finished works” featuring pieces that can be reproduced in small quantities and sold online, with all proceeds to cancer research.

The goal is not to add to the late artist’s body of work,

or to imagine how they might have
completed their pieces.

Instead we hope to demonstrate that when we fight to eradicate cancer,

we fight to extend the act of creation.

We fight to extend beauty.

We fight to extend life.

Thank you for reading.

Please sign up to stay in the loop or get involved.

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Unfinished Work is an arts project to benefit cancer research.

Sign up to stay in the loop Scroll to learn more

Cancer kills 10 million people every year worldwide,

many of whom are artists.

Playwrights,

musicians,

writers,

painters,

and coders.

Many of these artists leave unfinished works behind.

Paintings,

compositions,

sculptures,

scripts,

and programs.

You could say the lives of these works ended with the lives of the artists.

What if we could extend the life of the work, and help cancer research extend the lives of all?

Unfinished Work aims to pair these orphaned pieces with living artists who will “finish” them in surprising ways.

For example, an unfinished novel

could be finished as a composition.

An unfinished screenplay

could be finished as an app.

An unfinished poem

could be finished as a photograph.

These “finished” pieces will be displayed at an Unfinished Work gallery, and auctioned to benefit cancer research.

An interactive gallery will make the unfinished works available to visitors for research, or to try completing themselves.

And finally, we will launch a line of “finished works” featuring pieces that can be reproduced in small quantities and sold online, with all proceeds to cancer research.

The goal is not to add to the late artist’s body of work,

or to imagine how they might have completed their pieces.

Instead we hope to demonstrate that when we fight to eradicate cancer,

we fight to extend the act of creation.

We fight to extend beauty.

We fight to extend life.

Thank you for reading. Please sign up to stay in the loop or get involved.

Sign up to stay in the loop

Scroll to learn more

You could say
the lives of these works
ended with the
lives of the artists.

What if we could extend
the life of the work, and help cancer research extend the lives of all?

or to imagine how they might have
completed their pieces.

Thank you for reading.

Please sign up to stay in the loop or get involved.