Anatsui is an African contemporary artist. He makes sculptures out of raw and recycled materials that he finds around his town, Nsukka, which is located in Nigeria. The piece I chose to blog about is called Continents Straying. This work was commissioned for the Royal Ontario Museum. I chose this piece because it looks like it has a soft texture however the medium is actually metal and bottle caps. El Anatsui cut and then flattened the bottle caps, stringing them together with copper wire to produce different patterns and show movement. I love how Anatsui was able to make metal look like a delicate world map.
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