The un-veiling of "Iron Teaching Rock How To Rust." The most important used of iron today!

Detroit Michigan . Mbad/ABA African Bead Museum will unveil the 11,240 suarq. foot installation Iron Teaching Rocks How to Rust The most important uses of iron today! Come see iron teaching rocks how to rust The unveiling is scheduled for 12 noon, Sept. 23, 2006 at 6559 Grand River @ West Grand Blvd. in Detroit, Michigan. This outside public art exhibit took five years to complete with 13 artists volunteering their time.

This installation is based on iron teaching rocks how to rust and the rocks are tricked into thinking they can rust and are then asked by the iron to teach trees how to rust.

This collaboration of craftspeople and the community started as they began to pick up debris and discover the beauty of iron which immediately led them to the African Blacksmith in America and Africa . This African that makes iron from melted rock and plays with fire, was also the magician, the rain maker, the diviner, healer etc?

The ingenuity of our ancestors' (African Living in America ) assessment of their situation is incomprehensible. The gathering and accumulation of the knowledge of metallurgy changed the course of Africa . It equipped Africa with a system of philosophy and thought that is with us today; stated in the catalog of the installation.

The catalog is 8 ½ X 11", 52 pages, 48 photographs depicting every aspect of the installation, with an 8,000 word narrative. It reminds me of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Why not go to Detroit and be a part of this world premier exhibition it's new, refreshing, and thought provoking!