WE DARE DEFEND OUR RIGHTS: The Gun Show
“Grammar” is a direct comment on weaponized rhetoric and its role in the larger economy of violence. As its own language, violence has a syntax and morphology – a larger context imbuing meaning into the relationships between weapons, ammunition, armor, perpetrators, and victims. This piece is a full scale replica of a .357 Magnum Revolver, made entirely from select pages of a dictionary.
Repurposed dictionary, adhesive