resilience

Stamping out gun violence in the USA has experienced many false starts, or perhaps more optimistically, tentative beginnings. As we have learned, it will take a concerted effort from a united force. The weapon in this work has endured nine strikes of a six-hundred-pound (272kg) drop hammer. At half its original width it has become practically a shadow, but as if mocking its imperfect destruction, it now grins from where it split a seam. The finished work shackles the gun to a steel chain, completing its metamorphosis from hand tool to body adornment. Strung like the albatross, guns continue to smile malevolently at us from their position of power around our collective neck.