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Artist: Diana Al-Hadid
I REALLY like Al-Hadid work because it reminded me of architecture. What first came to mind was "Is she related to the famous female architect, Zaha Hadid?" But I looked it up and she's not. Anyways, my favorite structure she did was the Forever (Blank) Matter, 2009. It is constructed from steel, polystyrene, plaster, wood, resin, and wax. Her inspiration for this piece came from Breughel's The Tower of Babel, and the labyrinth on the floor of the Chartes Cathedral. I have no idea how she even put this piece together, but I absolutely love it! I admire her exploration if various kinds of materials, and I will probably do more research on her work in the future, to help me with my models.
In addition, CAM now has this cool phone system, where next to the piece of art you're looking at, there is an index card with a phone number on it. If you want to know more about the piece, you call that number, and a recorded message of the artist explaining their work plays right on your cell phone! It felt like Al-Hadid was standing next to me the whole time. I thought this was a pretty neat feature.
I'm pretty annoyed that I missed the reception on November 6th, because I didn't find out about her work until afterward :(
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