Matt Noonan - Wings

This contemporary art piece by Lynda Benglis, a prominent American sculptor of the 1960s, is mounted to the wall.  It is massive and solid aluminum and it weighs about 800 pounds, and starts at at a height of about 8 feet before hanging off the wall hovering over the floor.  Lynda Benglis titled this "Wing" but I'm not sure why because it doesn't look like a wing. I'm not sure what it looks like.  When I first looked at it I thought it was a seat that somebody really important would sit on.  It also kind of looked like a giant squid to me.  I asked both my father and sister what they thought it was and they both said different things.  My dad thought it looked like a a large hand and my sister thought it looked like a dog that was facing the wall.  I really like now she put lots of details on the back but I am wondering why the artifact is facing the wall so I cannot see the face. I wonder what made the artist to think of doing a "wing" in the first place.  I also wonder why she chose to make it out of solid aluminum.