Video: Erase - an interactive painting dedicated to accidental victims of firearms
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Even the most ingenious picture drawn with a simple pencil can be easily destroyed in a matter of seconds with an eraser. But sometimes the very fact of erasure is part of the author's intention, as happened with anti-militarist work Erase from Greg Bokor.
Contemporary artists often turn to the theme of the negativity that weapons carry into the world, and also try to give dangerous male toys a new, peaceful meaning. Examples of this include Kyle Bean's anti-militarist work, or the interactive painting Erase recently presented by Greg Bokor.
While creating Erase, Greg Bokor and his partner for three hundred hours drew with a simple pencil the most detailed image of the American assault rifle AR-15 measuring 6 by 2.5 meters.
However, this large-scale drawing was never completed. After all, when the image was eighty percent ready, the artists began to erase what was drawn with rubber erasers.
At the same time, on each of the rubber bands were written the name and age of a child or teenager who died in the United States of America from a bullet wound. Thus, the unfinished painting Erase is a huge metaphor for young people who will never become adults because of firearms.
Greg Bokor plans to create several more such anti-militarist drawings and present them to the public in major art galleries across the country. Ordinary people, visitors to the exhibition, will receive only the right to erase part of the image from these paintings.
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