Tapestries Crossed With Byzantine Mosaics, Made From Bottle Tops

They are “large hangings made of thousands of pieces of shimmering metal, stitched together with copper wire. They are astonishingly beautiful and not like anything done before. Some think of them as tapestries; [the artist, a Ghanaian-Nigerian named El] Anatsui calls them sheets. It is common to hear them compared to Byzantine mosaics, but the differences are greater than the similarities.”