The Artist Project: Willie Cole

Artist Willie Cole reflects on Ci Wara sculpture in this episode of The Artist Project.

June 22, 2015

3 min. watch

From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In The Artist Project, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"I'm of that age where you read 'Mad' magazine—'Spy vs. Spy'—that's the same face."

Artist Willie Cole reflects on Ci Wara sculpture 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
Willie Cole, born in 1955, is an American sculptor.

Willie Cole (American, born Newark, New Jersey, 1955)

Shine, 2007

Shoes, steel wire, monofilament line, washers, and screws; 15 3/4 × 14 × 15 in. (40 × 35.6 × 38.1 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hortense and William A. Mohr Sculpture Purchase Fund, 2008 (2008.259) © Willie Cole