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| El Anatsui. “Earth’s Skin,” 2007. Aluminum and copper wire. Courtesy of Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. Photo by Nettrice Gaskins. |
Earth’s Skin (2007), a metal tapestry by African artist El Anatsui is constructed from flattened liquor bottle labels that the artist collects near his home in Southern Nigeria. The labels and bottle caps are fastened together with copper wire and attached corner-to-corner. Anatsui’s practice emerges from a more expanded understanding of what art can be that stems from both the radical practices of the late-1960s, and from a vantage point outside of the Western tradition. As scholar Susan Vogel has explained, “such categories did not exist in classic African traditions, which made no distinction between art and craft, high art and low.” The same could be said of creative coding.
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