Ben Turnbull’s “Deadly” Carvings On Desks
Posted on | May 25, 2010 |
First off, let me ‘fire’ away by saying, his surname matches his choice of subject for this series of woodworks… some little badaz toy weapons.
Ben Turnbull’s work is mainly themed on American’s dominance and it’s political clout towards the entire world (the Philippines included of course).
“Ben Turnbull is fascinated by the global dominance of American culture, and his works unsettling effects result from re-presenting the toys of our innocent youth in symbolic forms that reveal the shocking truths about war, death and guns in the world’s most powerful country.”
The carvings were done on real desks. In fact, if you’ll look closely, on the wood, you’ll see an engraved Pythagorean Theorem on the wood desk. One kid might have written that as his “reminder” just before taking a trigonometry exam. I’m just kidding.
The rest of the pics are here. And yes, I consider this piece art and putting this post inside “art section”
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