Beauty Isn't Always Good
2018
2'x 1'4"x4'
wood, metal, foam, flock
I ended the last semester carving wood for the first time and wanted to explore that going into this year. One night in the summer at 4 am i found myself drawing what came to mind and i drew a hand making the gesture of a gun. It made me think of the saying "people kill people" because people will use that as an excuse of mass shootings and not gun regulations themselves. Yes a person has to pull the trigger in order to physically murder someone, but why not just make it so the gun never ends up in the persons hand to decide in the first place? Guns get glorified and for what, they look pretty, they're fun? A guns only true purpose is to kill and implement fear and order. So i decided to work from that sketch of the hand gesture and combined real aspects of a gun to make a wooden hand gun(pun intended). Then i made a special case for the hand to rest in and gave it a finish. This was important for me for the piece because i wanted it show how something that can look so beautiful, is truly pure evil. No matter what excuse you use, its main function is meant to kill, and we need to do better to regulate it, period.
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