This series focuses on the ravaged tons of wood transported on waterways to the sawmill by the river banks, the third mainland bridge, in Lagos, leaving the environment untidy and littered with dust from sawn wood. From a distance, one can see the bed of logs, serially arranged along the shoreline, and the men in their old canoes rolling them onto dry land. This business started here in the late 1960s. Ten logs are joined into a raft using two intersecting woods. At the junction, a U-shaped metal rod is used to pin the logs. The fixture, rudimentary as it sounds, is durable and rarely comes apart.
Exposition Panafricaine
Musée National du Mali
Uzoma Anyanwu (Nigeria)
Log Jam, 2010
