Can you see guns as works of art?
Their sleek, iron beauty glinting in the light…
…invoking feelings of hope rather than fear?
No?
Well, read on. You may just change your mind.
As reported by Al Jazeera, thousands of weapons are seized by L.A. Police every year. In a joint effort between local businesses and the LAPD, these weapons are destroyed, melted down for more productive, less dangerous use in roads, buildings and bridges.
It’s called Project Isaiah, named for the biblical passage which instructs men to “beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks.”
However, one industrious Mexican artist, Victor Hugo Zayas, has found a new use for confiscated weapons.
Art.
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