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Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle is a very interesting artist because he thinks of art as occurring in the mind of the consumer of the art.  He is less interested with the object and more concerned with creating a platform or dialogue between himself as his audience to debate the issues his art represents.  He seems to have a strong connection with the current state of our Western culture and its reliance on technology. For example, he has one piece which is a Kevlar umbrella which he developed with the help of designers of military aircrafts.  He speaks about an umbrella having ‘complex curves, parabolic equations and being very much like a flower’ which is my favorite line of the video.

What I like about this artist is that he understands what his message is and communicates it subtly through his work.  He doesn’t explicitly say what his position is, but it is there for the viewer to discover.  Many other artists on this site have only a vague idea of what their art represents and they create their art more organically and with less thought.  While this may be the whole point of their art I feel it is inferior to works of art which are well thought out and has specific messages to be discovered.

He also collaborates with other specialists and artists to create broader artistic horizons which he could not reach by himself.  Another example would be Random Sky which is a computer simulated representation of weather patterns.  The art work seems to convey that some things in our world, no matter how much we try, are out of our power to control.