Black River
Haileigh Stathopoulos
The sculpture "Black River", made by El Anatsui. This was made to symbolize Africa's long history of slavery, hint the long black streak of what people are questioning is, oil or ink, or maybe alcohol? The long strip of black is also representing colonialism, and over today's conflicts over natural resources, especially oil.
This sculpture was created by bottle caps and copper wire. It was created as "contemporary work". A thin black strip is going from the top to bottom, and is guessed to be either, oil or ink, or even alcohol. It is also called the black river for looking quite much like a river, going along the border.
Black river has a lot to do with the culture from which it emerged from. The sculpture was created to symbolize Africa's very long history of slavery. The black strip is very symbolic, representing a river going along the border, and also showing colonialism.
This particular sculpture caught my eye at first, being made out of bottle caps. As I read through the plaque it made me actually think of how religious this piece must be in Africa, showing the hard times of slavery and making me think of the worlds problems today, over the natural resources. Black river caught my eye from look, but made me feel much deeper about it as I read on.
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