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| Plinth art project draws to close | Plinth art project draws to close |
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| Antony Gormley's Fourth Plinth art project in London's Trafalgar Square comes to an end on Wednesday morning after 100 days. | |
| During the One And Other project, a different person stood on the plinth every hour for 24 hours a day. | |
| The first "living statue" was housewife Rachel Wardell, who took her place on the plinth at 0900 on Monday 6 July. | |
| The last, medical photographer Emma Burns, 30, from Darlington, stepped onto the plinth at 0800 BST. | The last, medical photographer Emma Burns, 30, from Darlington, stepped onto the plinth at 0800 BST. |
| She will be the last of 2,400 people taking part. | She will be the last of 2,400 people taking part. |
| Participants were chosen at random by a computer from tens of thousands of entries. | Participants were chosen at random by a computer from tens of thousands of entries. |
| Gormley said at the weekend he had achieved his goal of challenging perceptions of what constituted art. | Gormley said at the weekend he had achieved his goal of challenging perceptions of what constituted art. |
| "If it wasn't disturbing to people, it wouldn't be doing its job," he said. | "If it wasn't disturbing to people, it wouldn't be doing its job," he said. |
| "If it isn't contentious and doesn't get a mixed reaction, it's totally failing." | "If it isn't contentious and doesn't get a mixed reaction, it's totally failing." |