The Elegba Principle

Collection
Capp Street Project Archive

  • maze constructed of wooden doors on each of which is a word, as the viewer walks through the maze they are confronted with a choice of word combinations which shift as their position changes
    1 color slide ; 2 x 2 in.

Creator(s)
Cole, Willie (installation artist)
Date(s)
Date created: 1995
Exhibit date(s): 3/1/95 - 4/1/95
Work type & Measurements
Exhibition — installation
1 slide (2 x 2 in.)
Description
Installation using a maze of doors as a metaphor for responsibility and consequence and incorporating 'Elegba' an aspect within the West African cosmology which represents choice.
Notes
Venue: 525 2nd Street
Additional physical form: Resume, Press Release, Finances, Slides, Photographs, Press Clippings, Announcements
Location
Oakland Campus — Meyer Library — CSP Archive — Artist-in-Residence (525 2nd Street Era (1995)) January to November 1995, Box 13
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