The 'Made by a Man' exhibit offers an interesting display of not only unusual artwork, but an exhausted attempt to show how society's arbitrary gender association is wrong. I found the art displayed to be very intricate, creative and impressive no matter who did it. I think the whole business about the artist being a man is insignificant. I feel like the only reason he did give the exhibit such a theme is to either justify himself or try to add a societal meaning to his work, but I think he should just let his work speak for itself and not try to attach a clumsy, hackneyed political message.
The piece I was most amused by was the purple number that was holding up a board. I thing the piece represents collective strength and the importance of solidarity or working together. This analysis may sound like a Saturday morning juice box commercial, but the concept of teamwork is actually always relevant. I am always a little embittered by the concept of teamwork because I am self-centered and like personal victories, I also played some sports in high school and never had a touch for athleticism which made me a rather disposable part of the team (I also hated my coach.) While the importance of teamwork may already be lost on me, it's not too late for these purple, re purposed ribbons. The work features several dips of the improvised fabric looping down and holding up a polished two by four. I think the fact that all these individual ribbons are working together to hold up something heavy represents teamwork.
Do you need someone around the house to find obvious symbolism in things? Call me, Cameron. I'll find any blatant symbolism or your money back.
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