After the World of Threads exhibitions in Oakville, Articulation moved to Toronto to explore the city while waiting for more World of Threads exhibitions to open. We spent a morning at the Royal Ontario Museum.
The ROM highlight for me was to see a work by El Anatsui for the first time.Called
Straying Continents,it was commissioned for the ROM in 2010.
Using his signature material, liquor bottle caps, he has linked them to make a huge metal textile.
What I hadn't noticed before, when looking at images of his work, is how he snips the metal caps into lengths to make a metal mesh-like textile which is much more open and flexible than the textile of round caps.
The experience of viewing his work was better than I imagined. The way he controls his medium to work at such a vast scale is inspiring.