El Anatsui was born in Anyako in 1944. he is one of the world’s best sculptors as well as professors and had done outstanding work across the world. His recent project that he has been working on is his acclaimed cloth series. He has made large cloth/blanket using bottle tops and has designed many of these blankets to resemble traditional African woven blanket designs. These art pieces are representative of mosaics and are really amazing.

He uses metal bottle caps as his medium to portray that metal doesn’t have to always be rigid and hard but it can be portrayed as a soft and pliable material. This with the right manipulation can be show as something completely outstanding. El Anatsui’s art tends to be on the larger scale which only emphasizes the detail and dedication he has towards his passion.

His message to the world is to portray the ignorance and in a way blindness of the way people act and the actions that they make. To emphasize all these barriers and boundaries of society. With his help and his art we can only start to break down these walls. This is consistently shown throughout his work. His art also shows the importance of usign material from your own surrondings and that there needs to be amovement of change, and that he has taken the first step with his art.

I personally connect with not only his work but his message because I agree with it. I truly believe that we need to take a step to better the planet instead of destroy it. Which is why I not only support his message but I also want to do something about and be apart of that change. The first steps starts with my participation ROM project. I believe that art is not just something you look or do. I believe that it is something you feel and that you grasp which is why I feel that art should be emotional, mental and physical.

Above are pictures of his work and a picture of the artist himself El Anatsui.