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The Artist Project: Nayland Blake

Mar 25, 2015 2 MINUTES
"So much of its meaning as a sculpture is bound up, not in what you can see on the outside, but what it contains within."

Artist Nayland Blake reflects on "boli" in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Nayland Blake is an American mixed-media artist who was born in 1960.

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Nayland Blake (American, born 1960)

Work Station #5, 1989

Steel, glass, aluminum, leather, plastic, rubber, and cleavers; 54 1/2 × 24 1/2 × 55 1/2 in. (138.43 × 62.23 × 140.97 cm). San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Gift of Dare and Themistocles Michos in memory of John Caldwell © Nayland Blake. Photo: Ben Blackwell

Artworks in this video

Power Object (Boli)
Power Object (Boli)
Bamana artist
Figure (Boli)
Figure (Boli)
Bamana peoples
Seated Figure
Seated Figure
Middle Niger civilization

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