El Anatsui- Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

Photographed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dusasa 11, 2007 is a textural wall hanging created by Ghanaian artist El Anatsui. Widely considered today's foremost African sculptor, El Anatsui assembles his wall hanging sculptures from found materials- thousands of aluminum caps and seals from liquor bottles- that he flattens, shapes, perforates, and assembles with copper wire. While he considers himself a sculptor, he meticulously orchestrates his materials like a painter working with oil on canvas or the director of a tapestry workshop. His work is anchored in his traditional culture (Ghanaian kente cloth); Western art (mosaic, tapestry, chain mail armor); and contemporary life (the detritus of consumerism). Dusasa may be translated as a "communal patchwork made by a team of townspeople," like his assistants.