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Guns And Religion
Al Farrow is a San Francisco artist who builds miniature reliquaries such as churches, synagogues, and mosques from spent ammunition and firearms. Physically & philosophically a weighty beast to handle, I love the juxtaposition of these…
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A Cardboard Life
British artist Chris Gilmour based in Italy has an incredible talent for constructing life-size objects such as cars and bicycles from discarded cardboard packaging. I suspect that like me throughout his formative years Christmas usually involved hurriedly unwrapping…
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The Beauty of Junk
Sure it’s the end of the world, or near enough, we all need to do our bit, although seeing as our local council don’t bother recycling most of the paper, card and plastic we carefully place in their specified…
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