Left Wing Project: How an artwork made me question my past

I think one of the most misunderstood aspect of art is how it can spark a conversation. The conversation doesn’t have to be praise for the art or the artist. It can also be how it completely fails to deliver any intent. Heck, the conversation doesn’t even have to be with other people. You can have that conversation with yourself, like how does this art make you feel? What does it make you think of? That’s what happened when I saw the artwork Left Wing Project by Isabela and Alfredo Aquilizan. The work itself is stunning. It’s a series of left wings of an unspecified bird, with each feather made out of arit, or sickle, forged by local blacksmiths in Yogyakarta. Because of the wing imagery, the sculptures have a sense of lightness to them, but we know that it must weigh a lot because of the metal and wood that they are made of. A few of them even move and spin, with sacks of rice attached to one end, further emphasizing the “lightness” and “heaviness” of these wings. <a href="https://medium.com/@hypercaring5/left-wing-project-how-an-artwork-made-me-question-my-past-1d17dc9c3e56">Read More</a>