Iron Bunnies Hop
Iron Bunnies Hop
Date
2017
Edition Size
13
Media
Acrylic, Graphite, Ink, Newsprint
Dimensions
12 × 11 × 0.8 in
Pages
74
Location
Brooklyn, NY
Collection
Collection Development, My Favorite Book$ 3,600.00
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Carnegie Mellon University
Getty Research Institute
Grinnell College
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Nationale Bibliotheek van Nederland
Library of Congress (LoC)
Smith College
St. Olaf College
Stanford University
Swarthmore College
The University of the Witwatersrand, Wits Art Museum (WAM), Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts
University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Delaware Library
Wesleyan University
I met a soldier who is a member of the special sniper unit of the International Criminal Court here in The Netherlands. Questioning the price for my freedom I accepted his offer to join him at the indoor shooting range. I was curious about how I’d deal with shooting with a rifle and a handgun. I was surprised to experience and enjoy the soberness of a physical workout and the immense respect I felt for the bullet, not the gun.
Drawing the parts of an up to its items dismantled revolver with the trigger and the bold looking like bunnies I visualise my confrontation and inner observations during my encounter with the bullet and the gun. By transferring the drawings and text into carefully chosen recycled news prints I put my personal encounter into the context of current threads of social unrest, terrorist attacks and jingoism.
A video version was exhibited in Santurce, Puerto Rico in 2017
https://vimeo.com/214768026