Video: Weapons as a tool of creation. Walton Creel
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
American artist Walton Creel has found a rather unusual way to defuse a gun and at the same time direct its destructive power to create objects of art.
On his website, Walton notes that he is not the first author to use weapons in his work. Yes, indeed, such examples exist. We have already written about the photographer Stefan, who uses high-speed shooting to obtain images in which a bullet breaks an object. Or the sculptor Charles Krafft, who creates guns, grenades and pistols from porcelain. When Walton Creel decided to associate his creative activity with weapons, at first he did not know in what capacity he would use it. “I wanted to use weapons as a creative tool,” says the artist.
The solution to the problem came in the form of the idea to "paint" pictures with shots. Thus, Walton simultaneously kills two birds with one stone: he unloads the gun, depriving him of its lethal power, and receives images from the holes that leave bullets on the canvas. The basis for the paintings is a sheet of aluminum, because more traditional materials do not withstand the onslaught of bullets and break before the author completes the work. Walton Creel "shoots" bullets of 22 caliber, and one picture can take up to 5 thousand pieces.
First, the artist creates an image on a sheet of paper, then laminates it and attaches it to an aluminum painted canvas. After that, Walton brings the barrel of the gun to each point drawn and fires. “Some people are very disappointed when they find out that I am not shooting at a target from a distance,” says the author. "But marksmanship has never been the goal of my work." When all the shots have been fired, the paper image is removed and the finished painting remains.
The first series of Walton Creel's works is dedicated to wildlife and includes images of squirrels, deer, owls and other forest dwellers. In the future, the author is going to continue to create his pictures from shots, but on a different topic. Which one is still kept secret.
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