El Anatsui

El Anatsui is a very prominent Ghanaian sculptor creating many of his works in Nigeria. Anatsui's preferred medias are clay, wood and general objects found anywhere which he used to create sculptures based on traditional Ghanaian beliefs and other subjects. The work above is called Bleeding Takari || which he created recently in about 2007. Though like many of his works, this looks like cloth to the naked eye, but is actually made up of liquor bottle tops and copper wire. Antsui says that the bottle caps represent "The material which was there at the beginning of the contact between two continents."