Street art · London
Photo: Matt Brown, CC BY 2.0
Corten Head
By Sokari Douglas Camp
Ever wonder what a Benin bronze would look like woven from rusted steel lattice? "Corten Head" reimagines classic African royal portraiture in perforated corten steel, letting light and shadow do the sculpting instead of solid form.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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