Tag: precolonial Africa

  • The Artist Creating Incredible Sculptures From Her Own Hair

    The Artist Creating Incredible Sculptures From Her Own Hair

    A braid becomes a ram’s horns. Another rises into the shape of an animal, while extensions can become scales of justice, a wooden comb, or a body in motion. Ivorian artist Laetitia Ky has turned her own hair into an extraordinary form of sculpture inspired partly by African hairstyles documented before colonization. What began with…