The Afropick topped by the clenched fist of the Black Power salute is a recurring motif in Sanford Biggers’ multi-media installations, which often synthesize sources ranging from hiphop, urban culture, Eastern spirituality, ethnology, and popular icons. In 2001, Biggers fashioned a giant leather Afropick headboard for a bed covered with a faux-fur blanket for the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati and the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore; two years later, he sculpted a small wooden Afropick to add to a case with other objects from the Art of the Americas in the collection of the Princeton University Art Museum. “I look at the Afropick as an offspring of ancient power objects from Africa,” says the artist, “where a mirror or a humanoid figure would be held to be a highly regarded symbol.”