El Anatsu, Between Earth and Heaven, 2006 Aluminum and copper wire 7 11. 2 3/4 i

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El Anatsu, Between Earth and Heaven, 2006 Aluminum and copper wire 7 11. 2 3/4 inx 10 1t 4 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, Now York Purchase, Fred M and Rita Richmarn, Noah Sadie K. Wachtel Foundation Inc, David and Holly Ross, Doreen and Gilbert Bassin Family Foundation and William B Goldstein Gifts, 2007 96 © 2015 Image copyright Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource Scala, Florence What do you think El Anatsui means by titling his huge hanging wall piece Betwoon Heaven and Earth? If "heaven' implies some sort of deal place, and earth our concrete, everyday world what does mean to reside between the two? IHnt it might help to think back to the discussion of dynamic tension and beauty in Chapter 1)

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Ans- between earth and heaven is a sculpture made by the El Anatsui. It is made up of strips of copper , aluminum and other metals. he made them to show that things can be recycled in a greater way just by arousing your curiosity about them. The earth in this is our modern concrete earth while heaven is showing a world where nothing is waste and everything can be used to make some important thing. We reside between these two world's.

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