Reload

Composing of metal, latex, leather and wood, Reload is a sculpture depicting the cyclical echoes of violence within the walls of Europe. Beginning in Berlin, clay casts are made of the bullet holes left behind on the city’s architecture during the second world war. The clay is recast in the bullet-metal used in the manufacturing of modern munitions. Accompanying the bullet-hole-bullets is a childlike slingshot, severed from a tree outside the Brandenburg Gate, fully formed with a medical torniquet assembling it’s catapult. This assemblage of material and form communicates to seemingly recycle the violence of the wounded architecture of war, making it anew as violent instruments of the contemporary.

Spawning a new mini-architecture, hidden in the cities injuries, an extension of the ever-present, hidden conflict is made physical. The repeated waves of social unrest made symbolic by the handheld, homemade weapons that iconify political, civil, and class troubles.