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Pan from street to Stephen Friedman Gallery window2. Wide shot photographers taking pictures of Prince William wax statue3. Wide shot artist Jennifer Rubell posing with statue4. Medium shot...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Entertainment \u003cbr/\u003eLondon, 7 February 2011\u003cbr/\u003e1. Pan from street to Stephen Friedman Gallery window\u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide shot photographers taking pictures of Prince William wax statue\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide shot artist Jennifer Rubell posing with statue\u003cbr/\u003e4. Medium shot artist Jennifer Rubell posing with statue\u003cbr/\u003e5. Close up Rubell wearing replica engagement ring\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jennifer Rubell, artist - on how the idea for the statue came about:\u003cbr/\u003e\"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.\"                  \u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: London, 16 November 2010\u003cbr/\u003e7. Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton arriving for news conference during which they announced their engagement\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment \u003cbr/\u003eLondon, 7 February 2011\u003cbr/\u003e8. Close up replica engagement ring\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jennifer Rubell, artist:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We didn't find a ring, I had somebody, Karlin Anderson a jeweler 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 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.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Tilt up Prince William statue \u003cbr/\u003e12. Close up statue's hands\u003cbr/\u003e13. Close up watch\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE (English) Jennifer Rubell, artist:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well usually a wax sculpture like this takes about 8 months to make, this was made in one month. It was made by a sculptor called Daniel Druet, who is probably the greatest living wax sculptor and it was made in his studio in Paris and every detail is super precise.  It is human hair implanted one by one on his head and his eyebrows, prosthetic teeth, glass eyes. The prosthetic teeth were sculpted by a... I don't even know the word for it - a prosthetic toother (sic), who made those based on photographs of...thousands of photographs of William's smile.\"         \u003cbr/\u003e15. Close up statue's face\u003cbr/\u003e16. Close up eyes\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE (English) Jennifer Rubell, artist:\u003cbr/\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: London, 16 November 2010\u003cbr/\u003e18. Close up Kate Middleton and Prince William\u003cbr/\u003e19. Close up engagement ring on Middleton's finger\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment \u003cbr/\u003eLondon, 7 February 2011\u003cbr/\u003e20. SOUNDBITE (English) Jennifer Rubell, artist:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Is it opportunistic, yes, of course it is opportunistic, but Andy Warhol was opportunistic, Picasso was opportunistic, Marcel Duchamp was opportunistic, I think any artist who is interested in directly engaging in popular culture uses opportunities of popular culture in order to create work about fundamentally other things that people see. Creating this artwork places a dialogue about artwork that you participate with in an incredibly broad cultural realm that a more abstract conceptual piece never would and to me, somebody sitting in a small town somewhere is thinking about the idea of art that you can touch and feel and your presence completes it, is a tremendous triumph.\"\u003cbr/\u003e21. Close up replica engagement ring\u003cbr/\u003e22. Wide of woman walking towards statue and posing with the statue \u003cbr/\u003eKate Middleton got her Prince Charming, and now so can you.\u003cbr/\u003eAmerican artist Jennifer Rubell has given people the chance to step into Middleton's shoes by creating a life size wax model of Prince William, complete with engagement ring - only this time, it is not Kate wearing it.\u003cbr/\u003eRubell's work allows you to interact with the wax model and put your finger through the replica sapphire and diamond engagement ring attached to 'William''s forearm.\u003cbr/\u003e\"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,\" said Rubell.  \"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.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe replica ring was made in London by jeweler Karlin Anderson.\u003cbr/\u003e\"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 bay of photographers?\"\u003cbr/\u003eRubell is a former food writer from New York and usually features edible objects in her work. 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