Krzyztofing

Out of all the artists depicted in the documentary, I’ve found the work of Cai Guo-Qiang to be the most interesting and skillful. I love how he uses gun powder, a material in which he calls “uncontrollable” and “destructive”, to create unique pieces of work. The art is in both in the inferno presentation and the left-over design on the paper. The way the paper yellows and the flow of lines in his work resembles a lot like the ancient Chinese artwork on scrolls. Instead of just drawing out and painting the art, Cai takes his time to set up the material and then takes the chance in how it comes out. Using this median, Cai’s work gives the viewer a more naturalistic feel to the art, and as a viewer myself I feel more attracted to its appearance than the average painting. Cai also succeeds in connecting the audience to his art using realistic tigers jabbed by multiple arrows. Cai uses life sized structures along with real fur and arrows …show more content…
I found the content of his sediment to be very emotional and sometimes disturbing. Emotions are most expressed through a person's hands and face. In the Hiroshima project, Krzysztof brings Hiroshima survivors, and projects their hand gestures onto the one of standing building from the bombing. Allowing the people to share their private pain to the open, and allows them to release it in order to promote healing. In the Tijuana segment, the people in the audience are shown getting really emotional with the content they're seeing. The face of the victims are magnified across the surface of the building, causing the emotions to also be magnified. Seeing the up close angel of the faces of the victims, the audience become more connected with what they say and take it to a personal level. Krzysztof himself states that the content he's heard can be overwhelming, and that's why he draws in his stretch book as a method to escape the content he