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Duvor Cloth (Communal Cloth) The Ghanaian artist El Anatsui builds his remarkable abstract sculptures from street materials, including metal fragments and bottle caps. He explains, “I believe that artists are better off working with whatever their environment throws up.” El Anatsui (Ghanaian, born 1944), Duvor Cloth (Communal Cloth), 2007, aluminum and copper wire, 13 × 17 ft. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Ann M. Stack Fund for Contemporary Art, 2007.25. © El Anatsui/The Bridgeman Art Library.