Sculpting Legos as an artistic expression to the world

For most people, Lego is mostly a toy for children, but it means a lot more to 42-year-old Ghanaian Canadian artist Ekow Nimako. His pieces span a broad spectrum, ranging from a flower girl holding a giant bee to the Ghanaian kingdom in the year 3020, and each art sculpture is built using only black Legos. In his “Building Black: Civilizations” series, Nimako reimagines medieval sub-Saharan African narratives. His “Kumbi Saleh 3020 CE” piece, which is made up of around 100,000 Lego bricks and can be found in the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, is named after the capital city of a medieval Ghanaian kingdom. The artist explores medieval West Africa and reimagines what it would look like 1,000 years in the future.