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There's a self-portrait of American artist Willie Cole called Silex Male: Ritual that shows his semi-naked body covered with a bizarre series of markings that, upon closer inspection, turn out to be the imprints of clothing irons. The work shows Cole from the front and the back, and the images are slyly labeled "fig. 1" and "fig. 2," as if they came straight from an anthropology textbook. While it is by no means the most representative work in the show, Silex Male: Ritual might be the most thematically appropriate addition to the MFA's new exhibition Object, Image, Collector: African and Oceanic Art in Focus. more ›