Yinka Shonibare CBE’s work Wind Sculpture III harnesses the wind and freezes it in a moment in time. The artwork manifests as a large three-dimensional, hand-painted piece of fabric that appears to react to natural elements in the surrounding environment. Shonibare often uses patterns normally associated with African identity. The fabric portrayed in his work has a complicated history, highlighting an intersection of cultural backgrounds as a metaphor for the multi-layered identities in the world today, which the artist views as a network of artificial constructs.