When I decided I wanted to make art using a gun, I was not sure what direction I would have to take. I knew I did not want to use it simply as an accent to work I was doing, but as the focus. My main goal was to take the destructive power away from the gun. To manipulate the gun into a tool of creation and use it in a way that removed it from its original purpose, to deweaponize it.
interesting technique from american artist walton creel
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[…] in his own words: …comprised of thousands of bullet holes, each portrait is huge at four by four feet and focus tightly on the face for a larger than life presentation… see also this previous related post […]
pingback by me studio » people and guns — 10-01-2013