LAPD GUN SCULPTURES

[AWARCORP]

Better here than on the street, right?

http://www.scpr.org/news/2012/06/14/32809/gun-sculptures-display-lapd/

[socalpistolero]

ouch!

[Ubermcoupe]

That sculptor is a HUGE anti. There was an expose about him that was floating around where he “sculpts” and asks “why would anyone ever want a gun...” blah blah blah.

[m03]

Cool. Next they'll have copies of the Constitution with big turd smears all over them on display.

[Nitro Express!]

I saw this thread, and at first I was like: "LARD GUN SCULPTURES", huhwhat? Then I saw it said LAPD.

[110]

nooooooooo it hurts.why cant I delete the images from my mind...feel sorry for guns that end up that way....

[nick]

Whatever passes for art these days. We used to call this art:



Now we call anyone who spreads his feces on the wall a modern artist:

[IntoForever]

I fail to see anything artistic about it. Is just a bunch of crap welded together. I should ask my pretentious cousin, just tell him it's all the rage first so he likes it.

[Slim///]

Art huh, all I see is a bunch of scrap

[scoot64]

Where is there any artistic skill in that?

[Dutch3]

Did those all have to be DROS'ed through an FFL?

If I take my rifle outside, run over it with my truck, smash it with a hammer, heat the barrel with a torch and wrap it around a tree, it is still a firearm?

[West coast]

Art huh, all I see is a bunch of scrap

I agree... Here

[Kodemonkey]

looks to me like an intro to welding class first project.

However, art should evoke some type of reaction/emotion to the viewer. He did succeed there.

[CBruce]

I fail to see anything artistic about it. Is just a bunch of crap welded together. I should ask my pretentious cousin, just tell him it's all the rage first so he likes it.

It's taking a very mechanical, hard, deadly thing and turning into something safe and organic. There's a lot of rythym and twisting, flowing lines...he's managed to capture a sense of serene motion. I believe it's meant to represent a dream of a world where firearms aren't needed. But that's purely from viewing a few photos rather than being in the space the artist has created.

I personally find it a bit of an affront. It's an overtly naive view of the world to blame the tool rather than the individual wielding the tool. As if peace is the natural human condition. It's not. Conflict and competition is. I also find it infuriating from a civil rights perspective...to see an artist exercise his 1st ammendment rights to crow about society's attempt to quell our 2nd ammendment rights.

Whether we like it or not, it is unquestionably an artist expressing his view of the world. It makes us think and talk about the subject, so he's acheived the minimum criteria for 'art'. Don't have to like it to recognize it for what it is.

[MrExel17]

NOOoooOOOoooo!!!