I'm excited to announce an iron pour in collaboration with Lead to Life. On April 6th in Atlanta GA, guns collected from the city will be melted and cast into shovels for tree planting. This event, along with a series of other events, honors the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr's assassination. Learn more about the upcoming Atlanta events here.
In 1996 I collaborated with Karen Sontag to produce a 4,000 pound sculpture created from melted guns obtained from a Hennepin County gun collection program. 6,109 guns had been collected in six days. The final sculpture, titled "Phoenix Rising, speaks to the transformative quality of melting and casting gun metal.
Gun violence continues to plague our society. In continuing this dialogue I hope that we can rise from the ashes.
