Week 4 Fibers and Flying Wolves

Hey world Cis is back here again to talk about what we learned this week in Contemp Art class. This week our guest Professor Rabinowitz and the topic for this week was "Fibers". Now I'm not gonna lie I was one of the late ones in class that day so when I showed up I was a little behind catching up to the lecture, but when I finally caught on I finally realized that the Professor was talking about the wonderful world of Fibers. To tell you the truth I had no idea what Fibers were, but as the professor kept talking to the class she explained that Fiber art is relatively new to the art world, traditionally fiber is taken plants or animals like cotton, wool, or silk. Since I sat in the back I  couldn't hear the professor as good as I should have. But there is no doubt that i did pay attention to the slide show and the images of the work done by artist using Fibers. One in particular that we focused on was an image that looked like hair coming down from the ceiling I didn't get the name nor the artist's name but it was a long strand of hair like material coming down from the roof and it reminded me of a woman's body the way it was shaped all curved- like. I felt it was a piece that symbolized to relax and in life you just have to let you hair down. But when Professor Rabinowitz finally explained to us that the piece was all full sexual it All MADE SENSE. She told us that the art piece resembled a woman's genitalia, as soon as I heard that it all clicked in my head.
As our guest speaker went on with her presentation I struggled to keep my attention set on her until I came to another image that caught my attention it was a piece by Cai Guo- Qiang and it was a "rainbow of running wolves". I know its hard to picture, I feel like its something right out of a dream. Almost makes you wonder if Mr. Qiang was on something when he visualized it. Picture wolves all running together in a pack dozens of them and running in the air and crashing all together, crazy right? Turns out that Mr. Qiang made every single one of those wolves with Fiber material, if that’s not amazing I don’t know what is. I later decided to look into more of Mr. Qiang and he has pieces in museums of full scale cars exploding. I see that the artist is into making action scenes into still projects which I find one of the more difficult things to recreate. But nevertheless still another good week of Contemp Art now i will leave you with work of Mr. Qiang.