Event Blog: Making Strange

This week I decided to take a trip to the Making Strange Exhibit at the Fowler Museum exhibit on campus. The name making strange, I felt didn’t really do the exhibit justice. I found most of the works of art to very disturbing and extremely strange.

Figure 1: Selfie of myself and the piece entitled Spine

In the first piece I saw, and took a selfie with, (shown above) was an interesting one entitled Spine. It had a body split in half and a spine placed where you would expect it to be. From an artistic standpoint it provided a perspective not normally provided, and from a scientific standpoint, it provided a well defined image of a human spine. It wouldn’t be completely out of the question for med students to come to the exhibit to study this spine.

Figure 2: Boat

In the piece depicted above a woman is in the boat above a man. While this may have some deeper meaning to it, I feel like since it is a female artist she is attempting to demonstrate how females stay alert while men take the easy road and get to sleep.

Figure 3: Sleeper

In the piece Sleeper, I feel like it her critique on the new desk job work environment that most people take in present times. Where essentially with their restless feet people’s brains also go to sleep.

Figure 4: Stretcher

In the last piece that I looked at was entitled stretcher. Which I feel like has a pretty obvious message, of the burden that babies put on their mothers. As you can see the woman is on a stretcher, and there is no other people to help her up on stretcher, which again symbolizes the woman’s struggle with childbirth and often alone. In conclusion, this exhibit was very strange, however I felt it provided me a view point and artistic experience I wouldn’t have gotten otherwise.